RE: [iPAQ] Problem with Familiar unstable - pcmcia-cs

That would probably be a good idea. I installed the wlan* drivers under
stable then switch to unstable and ran into this "feature".

Jon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Redler IV [mailto:steve@sr-tech.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 00:13
> To: Ward, Jonathan
> Cc: iPAQ@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [iPAQ] Problem with Familiar unstable - pcmcia-cs
>
>
>
> > The pcmcia-cs package in the unstable branch has a VERY old and very
> > annoying bug in it.
> >
> > /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng:122
> > reads
> > if [ "a$PRIV_GENSTRa" != "aa" ] ; then
> >
> > It should be
> > if [ "a${PRIV_GENSTR}a" != "aa" ] ; then
> >
> > This was fixed a long time ago (or so I thought) on the
> parent package.
> > Have we rolled back to an older one?
>
>
> Since this and the other wlan-ng scripts are distributed in the
> wlan-ng-0.1.8-pre13-2.4.3-rmk2-np1-arm.ipk, the wlan-ng files
> in pcmcia-cs
> should really be removed, as theres no working drivers to
> match those scripts
> in that package anyway, and if the packages get installed in
> reverse order,
> then the pcmcia-cs files will hose a working setup. Perhaps
> Alexander or Carl
> can tweak it for us.I can do it in a few days when Im free otherwise.
>
> --
> Steve Redler IV, systems engineer sr-tech.com
> SR Tech Secure Webmail
>
Received on Tue Jun 12 05:17:09 2001