On Monday 01 November 2010 22:51:36 Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > > On 10/31/2010 03:00 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first beta > > > release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze. > > > > Great, thanks for the huge work. > > > > I was wondering if there will be WPA support in D-I for squeeze, as this > > No. Nobody did the needed tests on the patch proposed in > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=22;bug=327309
For this approach to be achieved cleanly, upstream wpa_supplicant authour would need to provide wpa_ctrl interface as a shared library so that we are not using a copy of that stuff. In it's current state, if I were a debian-installer maintainer, I wouldn't be thrilled to accept a clone of file(s) which already exists (in some version or another) in some other source package in the archive. I've asked wpa_supplicant upstream about it just now, will see what he reckons. I am interested in helping debian's installer gain support for better wireless networking, however there is much to learn about debian-installer itself to get started and I currently struggle to allocate time to existing Debian commitments. I tried to help answer Glenn Saberton's questions at the time he was busy on this stuff, but failed to help with anything more substantial :( Other components of Debian's wireless networking stack are missing too: crda and wireless-regdb. These may need to be integrated into debian-installer in the future too. So it seems that Debian's wireless networking stack is not keeping up close with upstream changes, and I am the first point of failure in this regard. pkg-wpa team understaffed, help needed etc etc. Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201011041811.11753....@otaku42.de
