Bug#363967: [RFC]: new proposal for starting ipw3945d

[Kel Modderman <kelrin@tpg.com.au>]

Hi Steinar,

I notice some of my ipw3945 efforts have been mentioned in ITP's. I'd love to 
see my efforts go directly into debian. I do not have the hardware, only a 
fair idea of how all the ipw3945 pieces should go together, so I'd love to 
hand off my work to an interested party with the hardware to test or have my 
work sponsored/co-maintained or whatever.

I'd like to know if you'd be willing to comment on a new mechanism of starting 
ipw3945d, or verify if it even works. I've noticed on blogs and other google 
yields (but not ever been told directly via email) that users of my ipw3945 
packages (and also users of other distro's) are experiencing difficulty with 
the initial module load + ipw3945d start. So I've adapted the comments from 
Md[1] and incorporated them into a new source package[2]. If you could check 
out the ugly hacks involved and see if they work more reliably than the 
previous approach, I'd appreciate that.

Thanks, Kel.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381722
[2] http://users.tpg.com.au/sigm/misc/ipw3945d/ipw3945d_1.7.22-1.dsc