Possibly another dkms package

Matthias Saou thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Tue Oct 31 11:31:54 CET 2006


Ken Murray wrote :

> On 10/28/06, Jon Nettleton <jon.nettleton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My roommate uses them as well, so I whipped up a dkms-rt2500-legacy rpm.
> > To do this correctly we would probably need a legacy rpm for each
> > chipset ( rt2400,rt2500,rt2570,rt261 ) and then possibly an experimental
> > one for the next-gen rt2x00 code-base?  Is this even something freshrpms
> > wants in their repository?
> >
> > If anyone is interested in these offline, email me and I will post the
> > RPM's I have built for my use.
> 
> I use the CVS source rather than the legacy drivers.  Both the rt2x00
> and the rt61 would be useful to me.
> 
> Another utility that I find useful, and should work with more than
> just the ralink chips, is RutilT from http://cbbk.free.fr/bonrom/
> 
> I'm using all of the above without trouble on FC4.

Well guys, post full URLs, more details, and ideally spec files :-)
I'm all for including this kind of stuff in freshrpms for many reasons :
1) It makes things easier for many end users
2) It allows for wider testing of the module / application
3) It does not conflict with or override anything
4) It can all be removed if/once it's in the main kernel

So it's mostly a win-win.

I'll try out the dkms-ndiswrapper package ASAP, but it looks really
nice at first glance ;-)

Matthias

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