Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

I believe in Free Open Source Software. I believe in common work to create good software. I have received far much more from Maemo community than I have given.

I have pirated ALL the Windows software I had used until I abandoned Windows and came to Linux world years ago. Never paid for Windows software. I have had no moral problems to do that. Now, if I had to use Windows software for work (software as woorktool), I would pay for it.

Last years I am using Linux. Past year I bought an n900, my great pocket computer. Yea, I could do my own applications, but I am not so skilled. Most of my favorite applications for n900 are community developed. Free and Open Source.

Arguing about numbers owning is a nonsense. Even argues about GPL are just boring me (with all the respect, not trying to bother). This aurgues are not convincing me about donate or not donate.

I downladed lxp's driver from link, not donating, and weeks after that I donated. Had I been still student, I probably would not donate. But now I have a job, I can donate, and I wanted to donare not because he forces donating in his page (I allready had downloaded the drivers), but because I have followed the neopwn thing and his story, and I think he deserves our donations.

Just my 2 cents

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

Please devote this thread to the discussion of the driver announced in the first post and technical problems, successes, questions, and the like surrounding it. The debate of issues surrounding intellectual property fits better in the existing thread, "What is 'piracy' and is it ever justified".

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

lsmod | grep wl12..

If you see wl12xx, that's the stock driver. If you see wl1251 that's lxp's driver.

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

If money is not number then so is binary. Binary is not really number itself but just uses numbers to represent a sequence of machine dialect. You could use also "on" and "off" for binary also "A" & "B" and so many more but it's just the number 0 & 1 is the most common as those 2 values represent the boolean concept of true or false.

@sjgadsby
Sorry but what I said isn't about piracy but instead explaining what is binary. :D

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

If i copy someone's data i'm not stealing their hard disks, they get to keep their bits.

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

So upload the entire contents of your drives, as they currently sit.

Or do you have something against sharing "bits" that are yours?

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

That would take a few days to complete, and then several more for the upload; and i doubt there would be enough interest to justify hogging my machine and bandwidth for several days, and where would i even find a webhost willing to give me more than a Terabyte of space and several multiples of that in bandwdth all for free?

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

I agree with the mod above, this debate is out of place here.This I need to clarify here tho - I was aware of the situation with lxp, I had no problem donating to get my driver (and have no intention of distributing it). I posted becuase I felt your statement that "copying is theft" is wrong and a counter-opinion was required.

I'll reply to the rest of your post in the piracy thread.

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

when i type this command

/home/user/MyDocs/wl1251-maemo/binary/kernel-power # cd /boot
/boot # mv zImage-2.6.28-maemo46-wl1 multiboot/vmlinuz-2.6.28.10power46-wl1

mv:can not rename zimage-2.6.28-maemo46-wl1 no such file or directory

any solution plz

Re: [Announce] bleeding-edge wl1251 wifi driver for Maemo Fremantle
 

hey,

i wanted to download the bleeding edge drivers from your blog but i cant donate to you.i dont have a paypal account nd i live in lebanon so i cant create one cz its restricted in my country. is there a way u can help me with that? perhaps give me another method to donate?

thx in advance.