Bug#594561: firmware-ralink: fails to detect APs at frequency 2.472GHz

[kel@otaku42.de]

> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 10:15 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>
>> This might be related to
>>
>> 	http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel/54624/
>>
>> ?  Any news there?
>
> Kel Modderman seems to have disappeared, haven't heard from him in a
> long time.
>
> If anyone else wants to join pkg-wpa and step up to maintain the
> packaging for crda, I'd be happy to re-issue my offer of sponsorship to
> them if pkg-wpa doesn't have sufficient people capable of uploading
> directly to Debian. Those who want to test them can do the following:
>
> apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper libnl-dev libssl-dev
> pkg-config openssl python python-m2crypto
> svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-wpa/crda/trunk crda
> cd crda/
> uscan --download-current-version
> debuild
> sudo debi
> cd ..
> svn co svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-wpa/wireless-regdb/trunk wireless-regdb
> cd wireless-regdb/
> uscan --download-current-version
> debuild
> sudo debi
> cd ..
>
> I've been using the crda/wireless-regdb packages Kel created for a while
> and they seem fine but they need someone to step up to maintain them and
> get them into Debian. I don't have time to do that myself but would be
> willing to help folks who are interested in doing that.

I have not disappeared. Nothing was ever sponsored, though multiple
permutations of working packages were produced and annoying problems
were found and discussed to no avail.

Kel.