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[Mageia-dev] madwifi-source package ?

+ Christiaan Welvaart + cjw at daneel.dyndns.org +
+ Mon Aug 13 15:11:37 CEST 2012 +

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2012, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+
+> 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 ?
+
+I dropped support for this driver from hostapd because of that build 
+problem, but I don't know if anyone is going to complain about that. 
+AFAICT there is now an alternative "free" driver for these devices: ath5k.
+
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+     Christiaan
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