Hi, The net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng package, a driver for Prism2/2.5/3 based IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN cards, is scheduled for package.mask due to the following reasons:
* The package is currently unmaintained * There are 9 open bugs for it * The same functionality is provided by net-wireless/hostap-driver and/or net-wireless/orinoco-cvs (the latter especially for USB adapters) * The upstream author recommends using other drivers if possible * The package hasn't seen a stable release since 2003-03-04, where version 0.2.0 was released. * The last 0.2.1 pre-release was almost 6 months ago * The driver doesn't work with net-wireless/wireless-tools, but provides it's own, unique configuration tool * It doesn't integrate with existing Gentoo networking scripts If you would like to take over maintaining this package and fixing the above mentioned quirks, please speak up - else it will be package.masked in a week from now. If you have an (USB?) adapter, which works with linux-wlan-ng, but not with orinoco-cvs, I would like to hear about that too. Sincerely, Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd
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