AVM binary driver for SUSE Linux 10.1

From openSUSE

Version: 10.1-10.2

Situation

Some of the AVM (Fritz!) devices (http://www.avm.de/de/) are only supported by binary drivers coming from AVM. But these are no longer distributed on the install media.

Background: For different reasons some hardware that was supported out-of-the-box by 10.0 and previous is no longer supported by 10.1. Mostly this is because it has been decided not to ship binary only (closed source) kernel modules - in compliance with the GPL and the wishes of the kernel developers. A new system (KMP, Kernel Module Packages) has been developed to adress this issue - but as of yet not many binary only KMPs are available.

Solution

Linux New Media AG offers AVM drivers for SUSE Linux 10.1 for both 32 as well as 64 bit (x86 and x86-64) on their EasyLinux Starter Kit. They can be downloaded here:

 http://www.easylinux.de/Download/2006/sk11/

For openSUSE 10.2 there are at least 32 bit drivers available:

 http://opensuse.fltronic.de/