Bug#363967: Bug#372118: [RFC]: new proposal for starting ipw3945d

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

On Monday 14 August 2006 02:31, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Kel Modderman wrote:
> > 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've had some severe hardware troubles while the last week (and the week
>   before no own computer at all).
>
> However, I'm uploading ipw3945 modules package tomorrow evening.

Great.

> For the daemon package, I'll offer to co-maintain it with you (for the next
> week, I do not have a ipw3945 notebook here because I lent it to someone
> else, but afterwards, it should have been come back then).

I have no ipw3945 hardware to test, so my goal is that the existing packaging 
that I've worked on could be useful to someone with the hardware and willing 
to adopt. The package needs polish that I mostly cannot provide.

The documented/suggested modprobe.d hack has proven to be unreliable, and I do 
not agree with an init script approach I've seen adopted by two other 
parties; so this udev based initialisation seems to be they way to go and 
will need some testing/tweaking.

Thanks, Kel.