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

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

>>>>> "TV" == Tormod Volden <debian.tormod at gmail.com> writes:
TV> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:23 PM,  <jidanni at 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 userland firmware loading is obsolete and I guess it will not be fixed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.