Vincent Guardiola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Olivier Blin a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> For 3G cards support (which is listed in 2007.0 features), we need the >> nozomi kernel driver. >> > Hi, > > We have a customer (France Telecom) ready for test the 3G solution in > Cooker, (customer have more pcmcia 3G card ) > The next week Pierre of the QA will go to France Telecom to validate > the future 2007 for France Telecom and maybe test this cards too. > > This is important for us, we have chance to have a customer who can > test this solution quickly . > > Can you provide us a dkms this week ?
We already have a dkms source package for the nozomi driver. The requirement is to have a built module, either by adding a the module in the kernel, either by adding "pre-compiled dkms" medium. Kernel team, please choose what is the best for you. Thanks >> The easier solution would be to include it in the main kernel package, >> but I don't think the source code of this driver meets the quality >> standards of the kernel team. >> I know that a driver is being rewritten for this 3G cards (see >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/20/98 ), but I won't be ready for 2007.0 >> release. >> >> Another solution would be to generate pre-compiled dkms packages, from >> the existing dkms-nozomi package. Unfortunately, there is no >> package media to host such pre-compiled dkms packages currently. >> >> Could we provide a "pre-compiled dkms packages" media for this kind of >> drivers? >> The important work would be about maintaining automatic rebuilding of >> the dkms packages, but the kernel team already has such scripts AFAIK, >> and I'd volunteer to extend them or write new ones. >> >> So, what should we do? -- Olivier Blin - Mandriva
