prism2_usb and linux-wlan-ng

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 07:02:14PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> On 2004-09-11 16:22 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > We have the prism2_usb driver in our kernels now; I have a suitable
> > device to test it with (one of those things that doubles as a wireless
> > device and pen drive). However, we don't have linux-wlan-ng in warty,
> > which makes it rather difficult to do anything with it, let alone make
> > it work in the installer as I'd been planning to do.
> > 
> > Would now be a bad time to ask for it to go in Supported or something?
> 
> For the records, bug #1064 asks exactly that, but did not get too much
> responses so far :-)
> 
> Just my 2¢: <IMHO>as long as we don't have fancy autodetection and
> installer support (which is not likely to happen for Warty, I
> suppose),

It would probably be fairly straightforward if we had udebs of
linux-wlan-ng, and adding entries to hardware databases isn't high-risk.
netcfg does need to be modified to deal with wlanctl-ng, though, which
is more interesting.

Deferring to hoary's certainly a pretty valid option at this point in
the release cycle, though.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]