Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2013-08-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
So we had a meeting at DebConf about improving hardware support in stable, and seemed to come to a consensus that compat-drivers (formerly compat-wireless) could be added to stable. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2013/08/msg00119.html. (I forgot about this ITP bug, otherwise I would have

Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2013-08-14 Thread Jayen Ashar
What I have now is a set of instructions for building packages with modass[1] which I've used for compat-wireless and peak's canbus driver. I would like to (at some point) learn to use dkms, especially if it'll make my job easier. I also welcome someone [a mentor] to work with on this as my

Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 20:36 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 12:41 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14

Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-22 Thread Jayen Ashar
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 12:41 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: Hi kernel team, I intend to

Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-21 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 12:41 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: Hi kernel team, I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and compat-drivers (when

Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 15:10 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jayen Ashar j.as...@marathon-targets.com * Package name: compat-wireless-3.5.4 Version : 1-snp This has been replaced by compat-drivers https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/.

Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-16 Thread Jayen Ashar
Hi kernel team, I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and compat-drivers (when available) as module-assistant packages, starting with compat-wireless 3.5.4. The reason I am using module-assistant (instead of dkms) is so that embedded users of debian can compile distribute

Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: Hi kernel team, I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and compat-drivers (when available) as module-assistant packages, starting with compat-wireless 3.5.4. The reason I am using module-assistant (instead of dkms)

Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-16 Thread Jayen Ashar
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:14 +1100, Jayen Ashar wrote: Hi kernel team, I intend to package the stable versions of compat-wireless and compat-drivers (when available) as module-assistant packages, starting with

Bug#696038: ITP: compat-wireless-3.5.4 -- backported linux wireless drivers

2012-12-15 Thread Jayen Ashar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jayen Ashar j.as...@marathon-targets.com * Package name: compat-wireless-3.5.4 Version : 1-snp Upstream Author : Linux Wireless team linux-wirel...@vger.kernel.org * URL : http://linuxwireless.org/ * License : This work