>>>>> "TV" == Tormod Volden <debian.tor...@gmail.com> writes: TV> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM, <jida...@jidanni.org> wrote: TV> linux-wlan-ng is not needed for anything any longer. >> Hmmm, perhaps remove it from Debian?
TV> Yes, that will happen sooner or later. For now we provide it as a TV> service to whoever still can make use of it. However it is unfortunate TV> if people bump into it and lose time on it when they don't need to. I TV> can make the wording stronger in the package descriptions, with more TV> disclaimers, to scare people away. >> Wait... >> linux-wlan-ng-firmware-files: Depends: linux-wlan-ng (>= 0.2.9+dfsg-4) but >> it is not going to be installed. >> never mind. TV> Yes, the scripts for initiating the firmware loading is still in the TV> linux-wlan-ng package, while the linux-wlan-ng-firmware-files only TV> contains the prism2dl binary and the firmware files. >> # prism2dl -s wlan0 >> prism2dl: No such device >> load_cardpda failed, exiting. >> # ifconfig -a >> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 ... >> # ifconfig wlan0 up >> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address TV> It is possible that the newest kernel code has broken the userland TV> firmware loading. Now that kernel firmware loading is working fine, TV> userland firmware loading is obsolete and I guess it will not be fixed TV> or reintroduced. Unless some more general ioctl functionality is TV> broken. I can ask the kernel developers about this. So I am out of business. I can't load it the new way, nor the old way. I even looked at ndiswrapper but that is a total mishmosh too. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
