Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Horms
Mikhail Gusarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: H If you know more, please add your knowledge below. [skip] 2.6.14-2 still enables the outdated ieee80211 :( Fixing this is simply a matter of disabling CONFIG_IEEE80211. This will allow to use ipw2200 (ipw2100

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:51:44AM +, Horms wrote: Mikhail Gusarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: H If you know more, please add your knowledge below. [skip] 2.6.14-2 still enables the outdated ieee80211 :( Fixing this is simply a matter of

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Horms
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:09:54AM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:51:44AM +, Horms wrote: Mikhail Gusarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: H If you know more, please add your knowledge below. [skip] 2.6.14-2

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:17PM +0900, Horms wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:09:54AM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:51:44AM +, Horms wrote: Mikhail Gusarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: H If you know more,

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:44, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:17PM +0900, Horms wrote: Ok, so I should just go ahead and put my patch into the 2.6.14 branch? Or should we leave it as 2.6.15 probably isn't that far away... maybe depends if d-i will base itself

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:49:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:44, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:17PM +0900, Horms wrote: Ok, so I should just go ahead and put my patch into the 2.6.14 branch? Or should we leave it as 2.6.15 probably

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 16:06, Maximilian Attems wrote: better ntfs support, up2date ipw2XXX, vfs support shared subtree, fbcon console rotation + usual bunch of fixes and driver upgrades. no acpi change. Nothing that should give us problems I think. Thanks. FB console rotation could be

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:49:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:44, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:17PM +0900, Horms wrote: Ok, so I should just go ahead and put my patch into the 2.6.14 branch? Or should we leave it as 2.6.15 probably

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 21:04, Sven Luther wrote: Are there major changes from .14 to .15? If not, we should be able to change over to .15 relatively fast. .15 will bring a non-negligible amount of change to powerpc, going from ARCH=ppc|ppc64 to ARCH=powerpc, which may entail

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 11:58:17PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 21:04, Sven Luther wrote: Are there major changes from .14 to .15? If not, we should be able to change over to .15 relatively fast. .15 will bring a non-negligible amount of change to powerpc, going

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 12:26:25AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 01 December 2005 00:09, Sven Luther wrote: Yeah, but the change from ARCH=ppc | ARCH=ppc64, to a single re-unified ARCH=powerpc kernel will not go without glitch, especially for the lesser subarches (oldworld, prep, apus

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-30 Thread Horms
In gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel Maximilian Attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:49:28PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 11:44, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 06:22:17PM +0900, Horms wrote: Ok, so I should just go ahead and put

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-27 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: H If you know more, please add your knowledge below. [skip] 2.6.14-2 still enables the outdated ieee80211 :( Fixing this is simply a matter of disabling CONFIG_IEEE80211. This will allow to use ipw2200 (ipw2100 also) drivers built using module-assistant as

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-05 Thread Harald Welte
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:21:00AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:29:20PM +0900, Horms wrote: do I take that comment to mean that upstream can't update the drivers but Debian can? And if so, do you recommend updating Debian's kernel packages, or putting the

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-04 Thread Horms
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:51:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Horms wrote: I don't have a particular problem with disabling those drivers from the build. But the d-i guys might. I've CCed them for comment (and dropped the netdev CC). No d-i udebs contain ipw2200 or ieee80211. The system

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-04 Thread Horms
[dropping debian-boot from CC, they've indicated this isn't a packaging issue for them at this time] Hi, Sorry for the confusion surround this, I was not at all aware of the somewhat special state of ieee80211/ipw2200 upstream. Let me answer some questions, now I have done a little bit or

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:51:24AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Horms wrote: I don't have a particular problem with disabling those drivers from the build. But the d-i guys might. I've CCed them for comment (and dropped the netdev CC). No d-i udebs contain ipw2200 or ieee80211. The system

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:29:20PM +0900, Horms wrote: do I take that comment to mean that upstream can't update the drivers but Debian can? And if so, do you recommend updating Debian's kernel packages, or putting the updates elsewhere? Well, we could upstream, but so far no one is annoyed

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-03 Thread Horms
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:54:09PM +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: You ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've encountered the problem with 2.6.14 kernels: they are shipped with ancient version of ipw2200 drivers (1.0.0 while current version is 1.0.7) and ancient version of ieee80211 subsystem

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-03 Thread Horms
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:26:21PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:54:09PM +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: So, having in mind the two levels of 'stablenesss': kernel 'stableness' and modules 'stableness' :) we should find the way to exclude discussed modules from

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:54:09PM +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: So, having in mind the two levels of 'stablenesss': kernel 'stableness' and modules 'stableness' :) we should find the way to exclude discussed modules from the build, because in-kernel versions will always be, erm..., slightly

ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-01 Thread Mikhail Gusarov
Hello, I've encountered the problem with 2.6.14 kernels: they are shipped with ancient version of ipw2200 drivers (1.0.0 while current version is 1.0.7) and ancient version of ieee80211 subsystem (copyrighted as 2004, so also outdated). This breaks compilation of module from ipw2200-source