ndisgtk/ndiswrapper on the install images

[Julian Andres Klode]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:10:02PM +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> On 7 November 2012 12:55, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > As part of the ongoing goal to remove python2 from the installation
> > media [1] ndisgtk was identified to still be using python2, pygtk and
> > python-glade2.
> >
> > Are there plans to port ndisgtk to python3, pygi and gtkbuilder ?
> > Is ndisgtk still needed? Or can ubuntu-drivers-common take over this
> > functionality.
> >
> > Would it be acceptable to drop the ndisgtk (GUI, not the command line
> > ndiswrapper-utils) from the install images?
> > The current instructions/documentation for ndiswrapper do list both
> > ndisgtk and command line way of installing windows drivers. [2]
> >
> > I do want to question the need for ndiswrapper on the install media in
> > recent years: (i) given that all major computer manufacturers ship
> > ubuntu pre-installed and (ii) preferred way to get the windows driver
> > is over the network [2] (iii) and the steps to manually retrieve
> > windows drivers from a windows installation are harder to follow than
> > ndiswrapper command-line instructions.
> >
> 
> It turns out that ndiswrapper linux kernel module was dropped, as far
> back as during precise development or possibly before that.
> At the time ndiswrapper module was dropped, ndiswrapper-dkms was not seeded.
> 
> I have now opened a bug to drop bogus provides:ndiswrapper from the
> linux kernel [3].
> 
> And I would like to raise a merge proposal to ubuntu seeds to do one of:
> * to drop ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils-1.9, ndisgtk from all seeds
> * seed ndiswrapper-dkms
> 
> I am in favor of dropping the whole lot from the images as they are
> currently useless for the "offline" case since kernel module is not on
> the installation media.
> Alternatively, if this was a mistake, dkms module should be seeded.
> 
> [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1076395
> 

I prefer dropping, too. Nowadays, cards needing ndiswrapper are not
that usual anymore, and development of ndiswrapper is not that
active anymore.

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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