Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread jidanni
I have a WL-382F/E, similar to the | 105 | Sparklan | WL-382F/N | | 0x03eb | 0x7605 | AT76C503A | RFMD on Title: Atmel AT76C502/3A/5 based wireless USB devices URL:http://at76c503a.berlios.de/devices.html So how do I test # modprobe atmel etc.? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread jidanni
TV> What is your USB ID from lsusb? 09aa:3642 Intersil Corp. Prism 2.x 802.11b Adapter However when I go to http://www.sparklan.com/downloadSupport.php?support_id=89 there is no Linux driver offered either. So maybe http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz is wrong. Gosh, wish there wa

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread Tormod Volden
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:28 PM, wrote: > Wait, following this trail, > http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php > http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz > I see > |---++--+-+-+-

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread jidanni
Wait, following this trail, http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/drivers.php http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz I see |---++--+-+-+-+--+---| | S

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread jidanni
TV> let us focus on that in bug 583522. Yes I am focusing very hard on it. What should I do? Can you reproduce it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread Tormod Volden
> 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. You /should/ be able to load it the new way. Fixing the bug in the kernel driver that prevents it from working is the way to go. But let us focus on that in bug

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread jidanni
> "TV" == Tormod Volden writes: TV> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM, 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.

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread Tormod Volden
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM, wrote: > TV> linux-wlan-ng is not needed for anything any longer. > Hmmm, perhaps remove it from Debian? Yes, that will happen sooner or later. For now we provide it as a service to whoever still can make use of it. However it is unfortunate if people bump into i

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread jidanni
TV> linux-wlan-ng is not needed for anything any longer. Hmmm, perhaps remove it from Debian? 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. # prism2dl -s wlan0 prism2dl: No such device load_cardpda failed, exiting

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-30 Thread Tormod Volden
> However in /usr/share/doc/linux-wlan-ng-doc/FAQ.gz we read > >                1) USB support >        (1) Is the only truly unique thing that linux-wlan-ng does that >        is generally needed any more. > > And indeed, prism2-usb-firmware-installer does not ALWAYS help, (as nor > perhaps does l

Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

2010-05-01 Thread jidanni
Package: linux-wlan-ng Version: 0.2.9+dfsg-4 Severity: wishlist In the Description we read: Please note that you probably do not need this package: The prism2_usb driver is included in the default kernel packages since 2.6.31. If you need firmware loading for your prism2_usb device,