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

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

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 18:32 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> * The same functionality is provided by net-wireless/hostap-driver
> and/or net-wireless/orinoco-cvs (the latter especially for USB adapters)

There is not an orinoco-cvs ebuild that is marked stable, plus it is a
live CVS ebuild, making it pretty unusable for a release.  Is there a
plan for this?

> 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.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:24 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> There is not an orinoco-cvs ebuild that is marked stable, plus it is a
> live CVS ebuild, making it pretty unusable for a release.  Is there a
> plan for this?

The current plan is to wait for a portage version, which supports a
naming scheme similar to net-wireless/orinoco-0.15_rc2_p20050708 in
order to add a snapshot of the live net-wireless/orinoco-cvs ebuild to
net-wireless/orinoco.

If you can come up with a naming scheme, apart from -rX bumping, that
will allow us to add a CVS snapshot to net-wireless/orinoco, please do.

I've asked this on this mailing list before, I know :)

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

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

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 19:31 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:24 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> > There is not an orinoco-cvs ebuild that is marked stable, plus it is a
> > live CVS ebuild, making it pretty unusable for a release.  Is there a
> > plan for this?
> 
> The current plan is to wait for a portage version, which supports a
> naming scheme similar to net-wireless/orinoco-0.15_rc2_p20050708 in
> order to add a snapshot of the live net-wireless/orinoco-cvs ebuild to
> net-wireless/orinoco.
> 
> If you can come up with a naming scheme, apart from -rX bumping, that
> will allow us to add a CVS snapshot to net-wireless/orinoco, please do.

Well, there's always changing orinoco-cvs from a "live" CVS ebuild to a
snapshot-based CVS ebuild.  That would make it orinoco-cvs-20050708.
Then, when a new upstream tarball is released, it gets added to orinoco
with the proper version number.

> I've asked this on this mailing list before, I know :)

I know.  I just thought that maybe someone had given you a solution.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 08 July 2005 02:16 pm, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 19:31 +0200, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> > I've asked this on this mailing list before, I know :)
>
> I know.  I just thought that maybe someone had given you a solution.

thats because a solution doesnt exist for what you want exactly ... portage 
doesnt allow you to combine suffixes, so no _rc_p ...
-mike
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Re: [gentoo-dev] net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng scheduled for package.mask

[Petteri Räty]

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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> 
> 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.

I have a Flybook with a Prism 3 usb adapter and I have been succesfully
using linux-wlang-ng with it. Following your suggestion I tried
orinoco-cvs and this is what dmesg gives me:

usbcore: registered new driver prism_usb
usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7
prism_usb_hard_reset - dummy
prism_usb_init - dummy
prism_usb_init - dummy
prism_usb_allocate - dummy
prism_usb_read_ltv - dummy
eth1: Cannot read hardware identity: error -95
eth1: Incompatible firmware, aborting
prism_usb: Cannot register network device
prism_usb: probe of 2-3:1.0 failed with error -95

I know linux-wlan-ng has its problems but it might still be the only
working driver for some people with usb devices. I am willing to take
maintership if they one day accept me as a dev. I am currently in
mentoring with the java herd. You can contact me as betelgeuse@freenode.

> Sincerely,
> Brix

Regards,
Petteri Räty
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