Bug#499537: ITP: iw -- tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 07:55:04 Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:05:20AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > > > > > * Package name: iw > > > > Description : tool for configuring Linux wireless devices > > > > > > Is this going to replace wireless-tools, or is it to be used in > > > conjuction with > > > wireless-tools? > > > > As I understand it, it would ultimately supercede wireless tools, but there > > would be an extremely long overlap period. During which time, I have no idea > > how they will co-operate, do you? > > No :) In the short term, I think that iw will not be useful in conjunction with any Debian provided linux-image [0], and only of interest to Debian-its using some wireless-testing tree (or branch of), thefore not much system integration is needed yet. It's probably more important to have a recent version of iw in experimental for the more curious people, and to send bug reports on to Johannes. During this period we may get an idea about how to intergrate it into Debian in a similar manner to wireless tools. [0] for example it won't work with 2.6.26 without first fixing nl80211 bugs > > > You are the maintainer of wireless-tools, would you like to help with or > > have > > iw? > > Well, I don't have any hardware that works with software drivers (yet), so it > would be very hard for me to test iw. But I would like to work together to > make > sure there are no conflicts between the two tools, and perhaps to merge > functionality where it can and should be merged. Please consider being part of pkg-wpa team, or if that is undesirable the iw package could be moved somewhere else where you feel comfortable working on it in the future. Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#499537: ITP: iw -- tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 07:05:20AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > > > * Package name: iw > > > Description : tool for configuring Linux wireless devices > > > > Is this going to replace wireless-tools, or is it to be used in conjuction > > with > > wireless-tools? > > As I understand it, it would ultimately supercede wireless tools, but there > would be an extremely long overlap period. During which time, I have no idea > how they will co-operate, do you? No :) > You are the maintainer of wireless-tools, would you like to help with or have > iw? Well, I don't have any hardware that works with software drivers (yet), so it would be very hard for me to test iw. But I would like to work together to make sure there are no conflicts between the two tools, and perhaps to merge functionality where it can and should be merged. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#499537: ITP: iw -- tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 06:27:47 Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:06:06AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > > > * Package name: iw > > Description : tool for configuring Linux wireless devices > > Is this going to replace wireless-tools, or is it to be used in conjuction > with > wireless-tools? > As I understand it, it would ultimately supercede wireless tools, but there would be an extremely long overlap period. During which time, I have no idea how they will co-operate, do you? You are the maintainer of wireless-tools, would you like to help with or have iw? Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#499537: ITP: iw -- tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 01:06:06AM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote: > * Package name: iw > Description : tool for configuring Linux wireless devices Is this going to replace wireless-tools, or is it to be used in conjuction with wireless-tools? -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#499537: ITP: iw -- tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kel Modderman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: iw Upstream Author : Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C Description : tool for configuring Linux wireless devices This package contains the `iw' tool which allows you to configure and show information about wireless networking. The tool is currently mainly used for drivers based on the mac80211 stack but work is under way to make it useful for other drivers as well. This package will be maintained by the Debian/Ubuntu wpasupplicant Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at: svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-wpa/iw/trunk http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-wpa/iw/trunk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
