Question about network drivers

[Michael R. Head]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 11:26 -0400, Mitch Golden wrote:
> I am wondering how it will be decided what versions of wpa_supplicant, 
> ndiswrapper, and wireless-tools get included in Edgy.  The reason I am 
> asking is that I have a new Dell with a Dell 1390 and to get it all to 
> work (so I am told) is that all of these need to be more recent than what 
> was included in Dapper in order for it to work.  See eg here:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=257684
> 
> I am willing to create packages for the relevant modules.  I note that 
> what I see going on in the debian development tree is that they are 
> jumping well ahead in particular on the wpa_supplicant to the 0.5 branch, 
> which is (according to the wpa_supplicant page 
> http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/), still a test release.  Is that 
> what's going to make it to Edgy?
> 
> I would hate to have Edgy come out unable to support this Dell out of 
> the box.

Two suggestions:
1) check launchpad (or packages.ubuntu.com):
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/network-manager
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant
http://packages.ubuntu.com/wpasupplicant
http://packages.ubuntu.com/network-manager

2) download the latest Knot or beta release, try it out on your
hardware, and report any bugs you find before release!

mike

> Forgive me if I am asking anything silly...
> 
>    - Mitch
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
suppressingfire.org
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