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Re: wpasupplicant udeb



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Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 25 May 2008, Stefano Canepa wrote:
>> why did you comment out the madwifi driver?
>>  # Driver interface for madwifi driver
>> -CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y
>> +#CONFIG_DRIVER_MADWIFI=y
>>  # Change include directories to match with the local setup
>> -CFLAGS += -I../debian/madwifi-headers
>> +#CFLAGS += -I../debian/madwifi-headers
>>
>> IIRC eeePC installer needs madwifi.
> 
> No, it needs the replacement of madwifi, which is ath5k. madwifi is a 
> non-free out-of-tree driver which we cannot support in D-I anyway.
> 
> Cheers,
> FJP

Beside that, madwifi actually uses wext. The old madwifi backend hasn't
been recommended for a long time, and afaik is still there because of
ubuntu.

Cheers

Glenn
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