NetBSD Problem Report #47031

From bad@bsd.de  Wed Oct  3 16:26:19 2012
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Date: Tue,  2 Oct 2012 16:25:57 +0200 (MEST)
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Subject: bwi(4) firmware not obtainable
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>Number:         47031
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       firmware download page in bwi(4) isn't reachable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Oct 03 16:30:00 +0000 2012
>Last-Modified:  Tue Nov 08 19:25:01 +0000 2016
>Originator:     Christoph Badura
>Release:        NetBSD 5.1_STABLE (irrelevant)
>Organization:

>Environment:


System: NetBSD limiting-factor 5.1_STABLE NetBSD 5.1_STABLE (nervous-energy) #4: Fri Nov 4 16:57:02 MET 2011 root@youll-thank-me-later:/m/obj/m/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/nervous-energy i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

	http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/bwi/v3.tbz is not downloadable.
	The connections to the web server have been timing out since i started
	trying on the weekend.
>How-To-Repeat:
	ftp http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/bwi/v3.tbz
>Fix:

	The Project should find a more dependable solution to provide firmware
	blobs for the supported drivers.

>Audit-Trail:
From: coypu@SDF.ORG
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/47031: firmware download page in bwi(4) isn't reachable
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 19:22:48 +0000

  This particular one is extra problematic. I'm pretty sure
  it's not legal to distribute it... so rehosting it is a
  problem.

>Unformatted:

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