please ship ipwireless_cs driver in hardy (is in vanilla 2.6.25-rc1)

Bug #226048 reported by Václav Šmilauer
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linux-meta (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The ipwwireless_cs driver (http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jikos/ipwireless_cs/) is driving USB GPRS modems. It is quite widely used in Czech Republic (for "T-Mobile 4G" connection), South Africa (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IpwirelessPcmcia) and perhaps elsewhere for internet access. Many people would appreciate this driver being "backported" to hardy modules, especially given it is a LTS edition and will be used for long.

The driver doesn't affect any other part of kernel and has been intergrated in 2.6.25-rc1 into vanilla tree (http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jikos/ipwireless_cs/README).

I will be glad to be of any help (test the build and so on), don't hesitate to ask.

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Václav Šmilauer (eudoxos) wrote :

Update: I found out that ipwwireless_cs is actually needed only for Cardbus modems, USB modems are handled by the ipw driver that does ship with hardy.

Changed in linux-meta:
status: New → Invalid
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