Re: RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-15 Thread Kel Modderman
On Sunday 12 November 2006 21:17, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006, Daniel Baumann wrote: > > I don't want to have ipw* build with kernel-headers, but with iee80211 > > extra package. > > Argh! > > > There are basically two reasons for this: > > 0. Currently the ieee80211 headers in mai

Re: RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-13 Thread Daniel Baumann
Jurij Smakov wrote: > Please either finally do something about it (instead of promising progress > "real soon now", as you did since August), or stop trying to block others > from working on it. uploaded to NEW. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email:

Re: RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-13 Thread Jurij Smakov
[Sorry for breaking a thread. CC the responses to me, I'm not on -mentors] On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Andreas Barth wrote: >> Eh, that doesn't sound really useful. One never knows for sure what the >> future brings. > > We are speaking only about the time where ipw3945 is not in

Re: RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-12 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006, Daniel Baumann wrote: > I don't want to have ipw* build with kernel-headers, but with iee80211 > extra package. Argh! > There are basically two reasons for this: > 0. Currently the ieee80211 headers in mainline are recent enough to > allow ipw* compiled against it. T

Re: RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Andreas Barth wrote: > Eh, that doesn't sound really useful. One never knows for sure what the > future brings. We are speaking only about the time where ipw3945 is not in mainline. I don't see any practical gain in using mainline headers now, dealing with problems there, and reverting to the extr

Re: RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-12 Thread Kel Modderman
On Sunday 12 November 2006 20:46, Daniel Baumann wrote: > I don't want to have ipw* build with kernel-headers, but with iee80211 > extra package. > > There are basically two reasons for this: > > 0. Currently the ieee80211 headers in mainline are recent enough to > allow ipw* compiled agains

Re: RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Daniel Baumann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061112 11:46]: > 0. Currently the ieee80211 headers in mainline are recent enough to > allow ipw* compiled against it. This may change again in > future, hence I compile them all the time against ieee80211. Eh, that doesn't sound really useful. One

Re: RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-12 Thread Daniel Baumann
Loïc Minier wrote: > To add my $0.02 to the table, I'm willing to sponsor Kel's packages, > and even uploading them right now if Daniel sees no objection. I have > ipw3945 hardware myself, am running the packages prepared by Kel (which > have a very useful patch to build against vanilla linux-

Re: RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-12 Thread Loïc Minier
Hi, To add my $0.02 to the table, I'm willing to sponsor Kel's packages, and even uploading them right now if Daniel sees no objection. I have ipw3945 hardware myself, am running the packages prepared by Kel (which have a very useful patch to build against vanilla linux-headers), and

RFC: ipw3945

2006-11-11 Thread Kel Modderman
Hi, This is not a request for sponsorship, rather a request for conversation and action required to support ipw3945 hardware in etch (if that is even possible now, with deadline imminent). I hope some interested developers may find the following ipw3945 kernel module source package a nice head

RFC: ipw3945-daemon

2006-10-13 Thread Jurij Smakov
Hi, I have prepared the ipw3945-daemon package, following the ITP 391686. The debian subdirectory can be found in kernel team's svn repo at svn://svn.debian.org/svn/kernel/people/jurij/ipw3945-daemon The source and binary packages for i386 are available at http://www.wooyd.org/debian/ipw3945-d