Re: [Devil-linux-develop] madwifi support DL

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Frieder,

On Thu, August 10, 2006 09:41, Frieder Hoessle wrote:
> Hello DL developers,
>
>
> I'm very sorry to bother you, but I have a question concerning madwifi
> support in DL. I read some discussions about madwifi copyright-stuff etc.
> in the discussion section - now I would like to know if it's possible to
> get madwifi into DL or not. The reason I'm asking this is a wlan pci
> compound with atheros chipset I would like to use in my DL machine - I
> didn't see another solution to my problem than madwifi (or is it possible
> with hostap or ndiswrapper?)... I'm used to linux, but building a whole
> new DL seems a bit too much for me...

I don't even recall this discussion... ;-)

But anyhow, our main problem is time and hardware. In order to add support
for madwifi somebody actually has to sit down, do it and test it. I'm
extremly busy right now and it doesn't look to great for the others
either. Not to speak of that we don't have any hardware to test with
anyway.

The DL build system is very straight forward, if you're familiar with
linux and compiling sources, then it shouldn't be too hard for you to get
it working.
I'd say give it a try and send in the patches once you got it working. ;-)


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  Heiko Zuerker
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