ndisgtk/ndiswrapper on the install images

[Martin Pitt]

Dmitrijs Ledkovs [2012-11-07 12:55 +0000]:
> Are there plans to port ndisgtk to python3, pygi and gtkbuilder ?
> Is ndisgtk still needed? Or can ubuntu-drivers-common take over this
> functionality.

Conceptually u-d-common is a level above ndiswrapper as far as the
actual drivers are concerned. It (and software-properties-gtk) could
take over the functionality of the UI bits in theory, but there is no
support for it right now; we usually rely on packages to declare what
devices they can drive with a "Modaliases:" package header, but of
course that doesn't work with DLL wrapped Windows drivers which are
not packaged.

But anyway, as this has been (unintentionally) broken since Precise
and we didn't hear any complaints, I'm +1 with dropping those. I
wonder when that stuff was actually tested the last time, and it's far
from obvious for a user how to use it on a live system.

Thanks,

Martin
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