On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 06:53:18AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Matthew Palmer ([email protected]): > > The problem is, I don't have a WPA network to test on. I don't know the > > first thing about how to set one up, and frankly I don't really care to > > learn. Hence, why testers are needed. > > I think you'll have hard times if you don't have anything to play with > and debug. You explained in your blog how to debug C programs in > D-I: that is clearly non trivial so, if things aren't working as > expected (see Samuel and Ben feedback), I fail to see how you'll > easily investigate this.
I actually wasn't planning on doing too much investigation. I was probably being too subtle in my original message, but my intention was to act as merge/QA, build and distribute test images, and collate test results. Actual coding changes I was planning on leaving to people who cared more about WPA support. Honestly, I didn't expect things to go as badly as they have. Only one successful report, and a whole bunchteen failures. Surprising for something that was reported as "working well" a couple of years ago. > Isn't there a way for you to put your hands on a cheap wireless > router? There is nearly nothing to learn about when it comes at > setting up these beasts (at least for basic setup).I even managed to > setup mine at home..:-). They're meant for basic Windows users, > remember..:) Hey now, play nice. It's not that I *couldn't* go out and buy a cheap WPA-capable AP, it's that I just don't want to. I only care about WPA support in netcfg in as much as it seems to be something that a number of people want, and there is/was a patch for it. It doesn't benefit me, now or in the foreseeable future, to have it, so I'm not inclined to commit myself to it any more heavily than I already have. Things that require me to unnecessarily spend money are orders of magnitude less desirable again. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
