On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 05:35:35PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> * a free driver (in fact 2, but only one present in Linux 2.6.26) exists
> and works out of the box -> ath5k
Can you propose a backported ath9k patch to the kernel people?
> * operation modes that may make madwifi more desirable than ath5k are currently
> broken (#491731)
What's the state of ANI in ath5k? bugs #463729, #493832 seem to come
from the lack of ANI in ath5k.
> * I lack the motivation to improve any of the points listed above, except for
> the very first one, and I am the primary caretaker of the madwifi Debian
> package and have always been so
Will you still be around to fix issues in ath5k/ath9k? Both of them
still need some work to be done. But I certainly agree that going for
them is better idea than maintaining a dead-end closed source driver.
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Kel Modderman
Removal request: madwifi, madwifi-tools
On Tuesday 16 September 2008 20:01:38 Riku Voipio wrote:
> Will you still be around to fix issues in ath5k/ath9k? Both of them
> still need some work to be done. But I certainly agree that going for
> them is better idea than maintaining a dead-end closed source driver.
I have recently left my home country and am on a 2 year Visa, and am therefore
without any of my hardware collection or Atheros wireless equipment for quite
some time to come. So my contribution to improve support for these devices in
Debian is limited.
Having said that, the following bundle of 12 patches really seem to improve (in
terms of hardware support and performance) the ath5k version in mainline 2.6.26:
Removal request: madwifi, madwifi-tools
