Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Linux orinoco driver - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

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
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> 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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