Removal request: madwifi, madwifi-tools

Julien BLACHE jblache at debian.org
Sat Sep 27 13:30:44 UTC 2008


Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de> wrote:

Hi,

> Yeah, and a lot of stuff is happening off the public lists too, which brought
> me here to declare Madwifi unfit for a long term release, as I believe the
> driver is on the brink of being abandoned upstream.

It's been more or less that way for at least the past two years. I
stopped checking the status long ago as long as I could get the thing
to build.

>> Another one bites the dust, it's good to see Atheros has finally got
>> the memo about Open Source after so many years.
>
> I think they will bring more goodies to the party soon too.

If they could finally allow Sam Leffler to release his version of the
HAL, that'd be even better. I think it's the only HAL supporting the
AR5008 family.

JB.

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