On 02/12/2015 12:47 PM, Stuart Gathman wrote: >> Am 10.02.2015 um 15:53 schrieb Dan Winship: >>> Of course this would not affect people using WiMAX via external hotspots >>> (assuming such people and hotspots still exist).
> WiMax by its nature encourages locked, proprietary end points, so it is > primarily used with an external hotspot. This is not a bad thing - buy > the proprietary hotspot, and you have WiMax internet anywhere in Jordan, > for instance. But it would be an uphill slog to support directly > connecting to proprietary networks, and I have yet to see an open WiMax > network. > > So my 2 cents would be to shelve support until there is WiMax network > that can use it. (Does anyone know of one operating today?) The networks themselves are proprietary, but the protocol for communicating with them is open, just like with GSM/CDMA-based mobile broadband. If you have certain Intel Wi-Fi chipsets in your laptop (like the 6250) then, you can connect to WiMAX networks directly, without an external hotspot. Except, as noted, the driver support is sketchy (last time I tested it, using WiMAX at all caused Wi-Fi to break completely until you rebooted), and at least Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu aren't building support for it. (So it's looking like the answer to the original question is: no, no one will care if we rip out support for it completely.) -- Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
