[Linux-wlan-ng-devel] Bug#501486: wlan-in in 2.6.30

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:23:41PM +0200, Enrico Tassi wrote:
> I just discovered that wlan-ng is in the standard debian kernel in the
> staging directory, thus I think the linux-wlan-ng package is really
> useless now:
> 
> tassi at birba:~$ /sbin/modinfo prism2_usb 
> filename: /lib/modules/2.6.30-1-amd64/kernel/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2_usb.ko 
> 
> We should ask for the removal of the package, I think, or just provide
> the package in contrib to get the firmware.

Only the linux-wlan-ng-source binary package is obsolete, the user space
tools are still needed.

Cheers,
        Moritz