Bug#233535: discover-data: erroneous Prism module in pci.list

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Am Don, den 19.02.2004 schrieb Joey Hess um 03:08:
> cobaco wrote:
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> > On 2004-02-18 15:07, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > > Package: discover-data
> > > Version: 1.2002.08.21-2
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> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > The entry in /usr/share/discover/pci.lst for "1260 Harris Semiconductor"
> > > "12603873 ethernet orinoco_pci Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset" is wrong: the
> > > module should be prism2_pci, which is provided by the linux-wlan-ng
> > > package's modules.  (That is, at least on my laptop, orinoco_pci doesn't
> > > work, and prism2_pci does.)
> > 
> > same on my laptop
> 
> Here I have the following device, which I think is the same one (?) and
> orinoco_pci works fine:
> 
> joey:~>lspci |grep -i prism 
> 00:12.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
> 
> Also, linux-wlan-ng has a slight lack of a maintainer and no up-to-date
> kernel modules right now, as well as needing its own special set of
> userspace tools to configure it.
Does you device have the same pci id (1260:3873)? If yes I think we
should not change this entry. If there are different entries and no card
with 1260:3873 is supported by orinoco_pci we can think about it.

Gaudenz