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

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > 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. ;-)

That's provided we can legally distribute the drivers.  It seems like
SuSE stopped including madwifi support for some reason.  Was it because
of the license or something?

 - BS