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 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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