Am 10.02.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Dan Winship:
> While taking cheap potshots at WiMAX during devconf.cz, we started
> wonder whether anyone would care (or even notice) if we dropped support
> for it in NM 1.2, given that:
> 
>   - WiMAX seems to be a dying technology
> 
>   - the Intel WiMAX driver for Linux has never worked very well, and
>     the SDK appears to no longer be supported
> 
>   - NM's WiMAX support requires a hacked up version of the Intel
>     WiMAX SDK that supports libnl3, which exists only in a git
>     repository whose location has never been terribly well
>     advertised, suggesting most distros probably don't build it
>     anyway.
> 
>   - Fedora dropped it a few releases back and there was no uproar
> 
> Of course this would not affect people using WiMAX via external hotspots
> (assuming such people and hotspots still exist).

Debian (and Ubuntu) never enabled WiMAX support in our packages. I don't
have plans to enable it in our Debian packages either.
So from my PoV, feel free to drop WiMAX support.

Michael

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