[gentoo-dev] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng scheduled for package.mask

[Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>]

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Hi,

The net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng package, a driver for Prism2/2.5/3 based
IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN cards, is scheduled for package.mask due to
the following reasons:

* The package is currently unmaintained
* There are 9 open bugs for it
* The same functionality is provided by net-wireless/hostap-driver
and/or net-wireless/orinoco-cvs (the latter especially for USB adapters)
* The upstream author recommends using other drivers if possible
* The package hasn't seen a stable release since 2003-03-04, where
version 0.2.0 was released.
* The last 0.2.1 pre-release was almost 6 months ago
* The driver doesn't work with net-wireless/wireless-tools, but provides
it's own, unique configuration tool
* It doesn't integrate with existing Gentoo networking scripts

If you would like to take over maintaining this package and fixing the
above mentioned quirks, please speak up - else it will be package.masked
in a week from now.

If you have an (USB?) adapter, which works with linux-wlan-ng, but not
with orinoco-cvs, I would like to hear about that too.

Sincerely,
Brix
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org>
Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd

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