Thank you for your reply, Aaron. That definitely describes very clearly the reasons why, and after i got an answer of madwifi developers, they don't think their driver is ready for a release yet.
Though i havn't got an answer on the question what is missing till it will be ready for a release. Thank you for your reply. Kind Regards, Grabler Georg On Friday 23 September 2005 19:50, Aaron Griffin wrote: > In addition, madwifi does not "release" anything - the entire codebase > is in cvs with no releases ever: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82936 > > This is just flat out terrible form. It says quite a few things about > the developers which I won't go into just yet - but in order to > properly maintain the arch package, in a bleeding edge fashion, we're > going to have to build nightly madwifi packages. That's just dumb. > There's also a little unspoken policy that official packages should > not be cvs/svn/source control based, but have real tarballs behind > them. > > So, complain to the madwifi people. I'm sure if they released one > tarball, we'd have an official package.... But as it stands, you want > someone to release "madwifi-0.0.0" > > On 9/23/05, Celti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's in unsupported because no TU has either the time, equipment, or > > inclination to pick up the package and maintain it. unsupported is not > > packages that don't work with Arch, it's just packages that are > > uploaded by people in the arch community, and not maintained by a TU > > or a dev. > > > > On 9/23/05, Georg Grabler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've bought a madwifi card today, and basically have no problem > > > rebuilding the driver every time again. > > > > > > But why is it unsupported and not in community? > > > > > > The madwifi driver is not less beta than the ipw2100/ipw2200 driver is, > > > and till now worked flawlessly with any atheros card i have had (11mbit > > > - 108 mbit were all atheros cards, since it seems as if it is the only > > > widespread chipset used on PCI cards, the few prism cards wich are > > > around arn't really realistic). > > > > > > Kind regards, > > > Grabler Georg > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > arch mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > > > ~ Patrick Burroughs > > A.K.A. 'Celti' > > AIM: nCelti > > ICQ: 209670498 > > Yahoo!: nCelti > > Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Google Talk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > arch mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > _______________________________________________ > arch mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
