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Re: 2.6.14 and linux-wlan-ng



On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:21:12PM +0100, Jesus Climent wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> Just to inform that mixing 2.6.14 with linux-wlan-ng with both cersions from
> upstream and as a debian package might cause some serious troubles:
> 
> The Debian (?) package tries to load /etc/wlan/shared.* but installing the
> Debian package and the upstream one ended up in my system with
> /etc/wlan/shared.dpkg-old which caused a loop in load process, thus kicking my
> system down.
> 
> I figured it out by running top previously to put the usb stick.
> 
> BTW, the debian package of linux-wlan-ng-source does NOT compile properly,
> whether the svn checkout [1] does fine, at least r1756.

The debian package of linux-wlan-ng is buggy anyway, right ? 

Anyway, expect a new out-of-tree-modules policy from the debian-kernel team in
the few weeks ahead.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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