From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dqvq0-0005mr-OH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:36:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j68GZCGd018894; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:35:12 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j68GWMOQ014317 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 16:32:22 GMT Received: from 83.72.54.193.ip.tele2adsl.dk ([83.72.54.193] helo=[192.168.1.115]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DqvmB-0003GW-8b for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 16:32:31 +0000 Subject: [gentoo-dev] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng scheduled for package.mask From: Henrik Brix Andersen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-HLCh9Jdc/bFYipqNDyyP" Organization: Gentoo Metadistribution Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:32:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1120840322.12808.24.camel@sponge.fungus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Archives-Salt: 97a67a85-984f-46da-975c-84c65a7e69c3 X-Archives-Hash: c94fc4cebe2b81dc67ed472529c5c59f --=-HLCh9Jdc/bFYipqNDyyP Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Henrik Brix Andersen Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd --=-HLCh9Jdc/bFYipqNDyyP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCzqqCv+Q4flTiePgRAmfuAKCFZ/MS+kGePJ7fZhbjiUPEfEKUQQCfXvzU tC3ksRvUPDnirc6SBmf0R1c= =LmXw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-HLCh9Jdc/bFYipqNDyyP-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list