On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 09:53 -0500, Dan Winship wrote: > While taking cheap potshots at WiMAX during devconf.cz, we started > wonder whether anyone would care (or even notice) if we dropped support > for it in NM 1.2, given that: > > - WiMAX seems to be a dying technology > > - the Intel WiMAX driver for Linux has never worked very well, and > the SDK appears to no longer be supported > > - NM's WiMAX support requires a hacked up version of the Intel > WiMAX SDK that supports libnl3, which exists only in a git > repository whose location has never been terribly well > advertised, suggesting most distros probably don't build it > anyway. > > - Fedora dropped it a few releases back and there was no uproar > > Of course this would not affect people using WiMAX via external hotspots > (assuming such people and hotspots still exist).
Side note: here in the US, Clear/Sprint (the only national WiMAX provider) will be shutting down their WiMAX network in June 2015 and transitioning the spectrum over to TDD-LTE. Yota in Russia moved to TDD-LTE in 2013, and I think the only major networks left are UQ in Taiwan/Japan and KT in South Korea... Also, Intel devices are the only ones supported by NM right now, and they haven't made the hardware or updated drivers since 2012. Dan _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
