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Hi, |
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The net-wireless/linux-wlan-ng package, a driver for Prism2/2.5/3 based |
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IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN cards, is scheduled for package.mask due to |
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the following reasons: |
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* The package is currently unmaintained |
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* There are 9 open bugs for it |
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* The same functionality is provided by net-wireless/hostap-driver |
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and/or net-wireless/orinoco-cvs (the latter especially for USB adapters) |
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* The upstream author recommends using other drivers if possible |
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* The package hasn't seen a stable release since 2003-03-04, where |
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version 0.2.0 was released. |
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* The last 0.2.1 pre-release was almost 6 months ago |
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* The driver doesn't work with net-wireless/wireless-tools, but provides |
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it's own, unique configuration tool |
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* It doesn't integrate with existing Gentoo networking scripts |
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If you would like to take over maintaining this package and fixing the |
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above mentioned quirks, please speak up - else it will be package.masked |
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in a week from now. |
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If you have an (USB?) adapter, which works with linux-wlan-ng, but not |
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with orinoco-cvs, I would like to hear about that too. |
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Sincerely, |
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Brix |
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Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@g.o> |
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