retitle 230593 linux-wlan-ng not usable with 2.6 severity 230593 important thanks
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040215 02:10]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > linux-wlan-ng has a RC-bug and is orphaned. On the other hand, I don't > > know enough about this package to see whether it's still useful. Joey > > has written in his orphaning: > > | I don't know if it will make sense to have this package in debian after > > | 2.6 is out and/or the hostap drivers go into the 2.4.2x series, which I > > | think they might. wlan-ng and hostap serve fairly overlapping purposes. > > > > So, my question is: What's the future of this package? > At the moment I think it's still needed for a few cards. > > I doubt that bug has reason to be grave; the version of linux-wlan-ng in > unstable builds fine with 2.4 kernels, it is not suprising that it (like > many other modules) does not build against 2.6. Ok. Than I'll downgrade the bug to important and retitle "linux-wlan-ng not usable with 2.6". Thank you all for your help. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
