[Linux-wlan-ng-devel] Bug#579875: clarify denial of package usefulness

[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 linux-wlan-ng perhaps either.)

The FAQ (from upstream) is not up to date, since linux-wlan-ng is not
needed for anything any longer. After the prism2_usb moved to the
kernel tree, the upstream linux-wlan-ng was abandoned so it will
likely not be updated. I don't think it is important enough to patch
the FAQ in Debian. If you follow the recommendation in the package
description, you'll not read the FAQ :)

Barring any kernel driver bugs, using prism2-usb-firmware-installer
should be equivalent to or better than the old linux-wlan-ng-*
packages.

>
> In the Description we also read:
>
>    This package ships legacy utilities and scripts for advanced configuration and
>    user-space firmware downloading (support for non-USB devices).
>
> However, PRISM2DL=/sbin/prism2dl mentioned on /etc/wlan/shared.prism2
> does not exist.

/sbin/prism2dl is included in the linux-wlan-ng-firmware-files package
(produced when you run the linux-wlan-ng-build-firmware-deb command
from the linux-wlan-ng-firmware package).