On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:11:08AM +0900, Onno Benschop wrote:
I understand that, however, if you have a machine that has a card that
is not supported by the linux-restricted-modules, you would use
module-assistant to create a module to match your kernel.
If you had the madwifi-source
The madwifi code is already in linux-restricted-modules, so there's no
benefit in providing a separate source package as well.
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, you would use
module-assistant to create a module to match your kernel.
If you had the madwifi-source package, you could patch it and compile a
module in such a way that it would continue to be maintainable, rather
than get the source from madwifi.org, unpack it, make and make install
it and have
.
[..]
[..] More generally, module-assistant needs a cleanup after many of
the duplicated sources in individual -source packages were removed.
I completely understand that we don't want the same source in two
places, but I would have thought that linux-restricted-modules depended
on madwifi
by the linux-restricted-modules, you would use
module-assistant to create a module to match your kernel.
If you had the madwifi-source package, you could patch it and compile a
module in such a way that it would continue to be maintainable, rather
than get the source from madwifi.org, unpack
Is there any reason that madwifi-source is not available under Ubuntu?
I'm basing this on the following research:
This link shows that madwifi-source is not
available:http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/madwifi-tools
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Is there any reason that madwifi-source is not available under Ubuntu?
I'm basing this on the following research:
This package shows that madwifi-source is not available:
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