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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Linux orinoco driver - savannah
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Rudy Gevaert |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Linux orinoco driver - savannah.nongnu.org |
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Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:29:58 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
Hi,
I have approved your project straight away.
Please not that you have to include the correct copyright statements
in eacht file before uploading it. Also include a COPYING file.
The drivers now, lack such standard thinks...
Rudy
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 12:41:02PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
>
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: The driver is licenses under Mozilla Public License version
> 1.1 and GPL version 2, just like other PCMCIA drivers for Linux.
> Package: The Linux orinoco driver
> System name: orinoco
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> The Linux orinoco driver is a driver for 802.11b wireless cards using Agere
> (Lucent), Symbol and Intersil firmware on Prism and compatible chipsets. This
> driver is included in the Linux kernel since 2.4.3 and pcmcia-cs package
> since 3.1.30. Based on older wvlan_cs and wavelan_cs drivers, the orinoco
> driver was created as a clean reimplementation by David Gibson and Jean
> Tourrilhes. Current versions of the driver can be found here:
> http://www.ozlabs.org/people/dgibson/dldwd/
> Unlike other projects for Prism chipsets (such as HostAP and linux-wlan-ng),
> Orinoco aims to support as much hardware as possible. It's simple, easy to
> hack and it's already in the kernel.
>
>
> Other Software Required:
> Linux kernel 2.4.x and newer with Wireless Extensions enabled.
>
> Other Comments:
> David Gibson has publicly admitted that he is too busy to work on the project
> and that a CVS repository is needed. Opening this project on Savannah
> shouldn't be considered a fork. In fact, it's an attempt to avoid fork,
> demanded and already attempted by developers who cannot get their code to the
> project. David Gibson won't be excluded from the project. He is free to
> participate, and I promise to give him write access to the repository if he
> asks for it.
> References:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2672319&forum_id=11677
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