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

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