Bug#435020: ITP: p54 -- Driver for Prism54 softmac 802.11
The wireless-dev tree's p54 driver is the one I am going to package; I should have made that clearer in the ITP. Maybe it's more worth to help upstream to get the driver integrated into Linus's kernel. To put it bluntly: If the driver isn't high quality enough to be accepted in Linus's kernel, is it high quality enough to be maintained in Debian? Maintaining external kernel module packages in debian is hard work as the linux-2.6 package gets updated often. -- rm -rf only sounds scary if you don't have backups -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#435020: ITP: p54 -- Driver for Prism54 softmac 802.11 wireless LAN adapters
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sam Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package name: p54 Version : 20070728-6e46e62 Upstream Author : Jean-Baptiste Note, NetChip Technology, Inc., David Brownell, Michael Wu, Christian Lamparter, Nokia Corporation URL : nominally http://prism54.org/ but it's hugely out of date License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Driver for Prism54 softmac 802.11 (wireless LAN) adapters - -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGq1VHshl/216gEHgRAlrWAJsEB7RmGqJmNzn1pDwfQvN0JoT71gCdEgbZ +IfCyY2MlBR5hqpLD2BjvmQ= =8WkM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#435020: ITP: p54 -- Driver for Prism54 softmac 802.11
[This mail was also posted to gmane.linux.debian.devel.general.] On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:15:50 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Is that really worth it, knowing that it will probably never be in a stable release? There is also a p54 in wireless-dev, based on mac80211. Maybe you have knowledge of what's going on there? Please enlighten me. The wireless-dev tree's p54 driver is the one I am going to package; I should have made that clearer in the ITP. The p54 driver certainly seems stable enough for regular use based on my own testing of it. I think that creating this package is worthwhile if it helps _anyone_ get their wireless hardware working under Linux, and if it lets upstream get _any_ useful feedback or bug reports. PS, please CC me in your responses as I read debian-devel though Gmane and may miss out on your messages. :) -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
