Re: Status of IPW3945 (Was: IPW3945)
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:42:17AM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a short status of IPW3945 in Debian:
> IPW3945 needs three things: firmware (binary blob), driver, and daemon
> (non-free):
> - firmware is in firmware-ipw3945, up-to-date with upstream
> (<http://bughost.org/ipw3945/>) at version 1.13 in etch/testing;
> maintained by the Kernel team
> - public packages for the driver may be found on personal web sites of
> various people, I've found Joachim Reichel, Russel Stuart, and Stefan
> Lippers-Hollmann to be providing such packages; I could update the
> more recent version based on a packaging mostly by Kel Modderman to
> the latest upstream version for my local needs, and it works like a
> charm, especially with the patches Kel has been adding recently;
> Daniel Baumann ITPed this driver, and Kel requested comments on his
> packages on the debian-mentors@ list
> - daemon is also available publicly from Joachim Reichel's site; Jurij
> Smakov ITPed the daemon, and started separate packaging efforts which
> he offered for comments as well recently; I've tested the packages of
> Jurij, and they work nicely (except for a point I believe is being
> addressed)
>
> I believe the latest versions of the above packages are of release
> quality, and I wish they ship in etch as well.
I think we should wait until the next firmware version is out;
that way we'll avoid the binary only regulatory daemon.
See the following post:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=116226285115407&w=1
Regards: David
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