On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:42:17AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a short status of IPW3945 in Debian: > IPW3945 needs three things: firmware (binary blob), driver, and daemon > (non-free): > - firmware is in firmware-ipw3945, up-to-date with upstream > (<http://bughost.org/ipw3945/>) at version 1.13 in etch/testing; > maintained by the Kernel team > - public packages for the driver may be found on personal web sites of > various people, I've found Joachim Reichel, Russel Stuart, and Stefan > Lippers-Hollmann to be providing such packages; I could update the > more recent version based on a packaging mostly by Kel Modderman to > the latest upstream version for my local needs, and it works like a > charm, especially with the patches Kel has been adding recently; > Daniel Baumann ITPed this driver, and Kel requested comments on his > packages on the debian-mentors@ list > - daemon is also available publicly from Joachim Reichel's site; Jurij > Smakov ITPed the daemon, and started separate packaging efforts which > he offered for comments as well recently; I've tested the packages of > Jurij, and they work nicely (except for a point I believe is being > addressed) > > I believe the latest versions of the above packages are of release > quality, and I wish they ship in etch as well.
I think we should wait until the next firmware version is out; that way we'll avoid the binary only regulatory daemon. See the following post: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=116226285115407&w=1 Regards: David -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
