-=| Kel Modderman, Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:27:48PM +1000 |=- > On Thursday 31 January 2008 22:01:02 Stephen Gran wrote: > > This one time, at band camp, Kel Modderman said: > > > Am pretty well informed about ath5k movements with regards to mainline > > > inclusion (am involved with madwifi.org team that handles development > > > of the non-free madwifi and free ath5k module) but not with debian's > > > movements. Thanks for the heads up. > > > > Cool, wasn't trying to teach you to suck eggs :) Thanks for looking > > after madwifi and now ath5k - you've kept several of my laptops > > connected over the years. > > About the only way I can see Madwifi being a useful package now that ath5k is > on the scene is to have madwifi actively claim priority over ath5k by > blacklisting it via conffile file in /etc/modprobe.d/ (installed by > madwifi-tools > package). > > This is staged for next madwifi-tools upload pending discussion. > > Do you think this would be an ok action to take at this stage?
why not? > Proposed updates are at: > http://sidux.net/kelmo/debian/pool/non-free/m/madwifi/madwifi_0.9.4~rc1-1.dsc > http://sidux.net/kelmo/debian/pool/contrib/m/madwifi-tools/madwifi-tools_0.9.3+dfsg-4.dsc I gave these a try. They built fine (2.6.24-1-amd64). The madwifi-modules generated by m-a has "Depends: madwifi-tools" without version. As I understand it, the blacklisting of ath5k in madwifi-tools is introduced in 0.9.3+dfsg-4 so perhaps the Depends line in generated madwifi-modules should be adjusted to include version? After installing madwifi-tools 0.9.3+dfsg-4 and rebooting, everything came as before. No ath5k was loaded, madwifi seems to work fine. Thank you very much, Kel. I hope kernel-supplied ath5k will get usable soon. -- dam JabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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