[pkg-wpa-devel] Removal of madwifi driver backend support

[Reinhard Tartler]

Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at ubuntu.com> writes:

> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 07:40:58PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> Could perhaps the kernel team share their thoughts on the status of the
>> madwifi driver? Is it scheduled to be removed from the intrepid kernel?
>
> I don't understand the relevance of this question.  From what you had
> quoted, use of the madwifi *wpasupplicant* backend should be discontinued,
> because it's not the "right" way to interface with the madwifi driver, and
> using the wext backend is better supported for madwifi than "madwifi" itself
> is - so isn't that the right thing to do, regardless of what the plans are
> for the madwifi driver in the kernel?

Well, there are some cards that work better with wpa_supplicant if they
are used with the madwifi backend. In general, the wext interface is
recommended by upstream, and should be used by default. Kel was
concerned that NM was patched to prefer madwifi over the wext interface.

However Alexander in the meantime has agreed to remove that patch, and I
have now uploaded a wpasupplicant_0.6.3-2 package to unstable, that I
expect to be synced soon to intrepid with the madwifi backend dropped.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4