[Mageia-dev] madwifi-source package ?

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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