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So much to the whole "we can't release it due to regulatory reasons" excuse.So much to the whole "we can't release it due to regulatory reasons" excuse.Posted Sep 27, 2008 12:14 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46)Parent article: Atheros releases ath5k HAL code
I always felt their old excuse was total BS, and this pretty much confirms that.
That said, I'm glad to finally see this code released.
(Interestingly, this code drop is for the v0.9.17.1 HAL, while the current release is v0.9.30.13.. I wonder why they didn't release the code to the current version...)
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Posted Sep 27, 2008 12:23 UTC (Sat) by Xanadu (guest, #1215) [Link] I wonder why they didn't release the code to the current version... That's easy. That's probably is what the distro they use on their test machine has considered "stable". Here on my Gentoo machine(s):
qlist -Iv hal Would things work better if I unmask a newer version of HAL? Yea, maybe. I don't know what could work better, though. All the hardware in my laptop (HP-dv6871us) is recognised and running. Why would / should I then bother at that point? M.
Not that HAL Posted Sep 27, 2008 19:26 UTC (Sat) by michich (subscriber, #17902) [Link]
What you see in the listing is not related to the Atheros HAL the announcement is about. It's HAL the daemon from the freedesktop.org project.
Not that HAL Posted Sep 27, 2008 21:29 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Someone needs to produce a package named 'ae35'.
So much to the whole "we can't release it due to regulatory reasons" excuse. Posted Sep 27, 2008 12:41 UTC (Sat) by nbd (subscriber, #14393) [Link]
The version number in Atheros HAL codebases is meaningless. They haven't updated it in years.
The public HAL builds were done by Sam Leffler, who would have liked to share his codebase as well - but Atheros didn't allow him to do that.
So much to the whole "we can't release it due to regulatory reasons" excuse. Posted Sep 27, 2008 21:49 UTC (Sat) by mcgrof (subscriber, #25917) [Link]
That is correct and another note: this is from out latest and greatest codebase so it is our latest.
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