[Mageia-dev] madwifi-source package ?

Angelo Naselli anaselli at linux.it
Mon Aug 13 16:21:40 CEST 2012


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Il 13/08/2012 12:54, Guillaume Rousse ha scritto:
> We have a madwifi-source package, which seems to be used as a
> build dependency only from wpa_supplicant package. Mandriva used to
> also have a madwifi package which wasn't imported.
> 
> Given than madwifi support currently prevent wpa_supplication 1.0
> to build (conflicting types declaration for ‘u_int64_t'), and than
> we seems to be perfectly happy without madwifi driver package in
> the distribution, is it reasonable to consider than: - we no longer
> need the 'madwifi-source' package ? - madwifi support in
> wpa_supplication isn't needed anymore ?
> 
Well I have an old dlink card that used madwifi and that
i'm not using any more at the moment, I could try it
again -when back from holidays- with the free driver and see
if i have any problems and eventually going back on this subject.

Angelo
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