Bug#627975: Status of wimax-tools ITP
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Anton Martchukov <anton@martchukov.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:32:54AM -0500, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote:
>
> Thanks for reply. I now have wimax hardware and wimax
> operator and want to try it, so maybe can help with pushing
> this forward up to network manager recognizing it.
>
>> No, there's actually a serious problem, in the form of a patch needed
>> in wpasupplicant to provide wimax itself.
>
> Are there any bug number for this?
>
>> Wimax-tools in fact it pretty much done already, but won't help
>> achieving much without the rest of the wimax SDK.
>
> Are there any ITP/RFPs created, so I can have a look?
(for background, the ITP for wimax-tools is just pending an upload
after sponsoring. Not really blocked by anything, but NM support for
Wimax is theoretically blocked by the Wimax SDK.)
There isn't another ITP for the wimax SDK (which I'd call "wimax" as a
source package). Feel free to create one, or we can collaborate to
help this go faster. The main task would be to get the wpasupplicant
patches accepted upstream.
As for the related bug in wpasupplicant:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655479
Note that wimax itself seems rather dead as a software project, hence
the lack of clear progress on this. linuxwimax.org appears largely
down if you're looking for the files and documentation; though they
are available in a git tree on freedesktop and mirrored elsewhere (see
lists.linuxwimax.org).
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl@gmail.com>
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