Bug#349165: O: ieee80211 -- Source for the 802.11 (wireless) network stack for Linux
Package: wnpp
Severity: normal
I intend to orphan the ieee80211 package.
As it is now included in vanilla kernel since 2.6.14 and is impossible
to build without breaking the debian packaging system for recent kernels
(see #338775), I lost interest in packaging ieee80211. I'm therefore
orphaning it.
The package description is:
This package provides the source code for the 802.11 (wireless) network
stack module for the Linux kernel. Though it has been incorporated in
latest kernel versions, the bundled one might not be up-to-date to build
third-party wireless modules such as ipw2100 or ipw2200 which are common
on Centrino notebooks.
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In order to compile these modules you need the kernel sources (or the
kernel-headers for the kernel-image packages from Debian). For compile
instructions look into /usr/share/doc/ieee80211-source/README.Debian or
simply use the module-assistant utility.
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The project's homepage can be found here:
http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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