Warren, Temlakos, please don't take the following personal, it's okay what you did. Am Donnerstag, den 15.12.2005, 15:19 -0500 schrieb Temlakos: > Warren Sturm wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 14:27 -0500, Temlakos wrote: > >>Warren Sturm wrote: > >>>Your best bet would be to checkout the cvs version and compile it > >>>yourself. Yes and no. Yes, you can try it. But if you do so please also tell the stupid maintainer of the package that he is a idiot so he can fix it and do better in the future. Other users then have a benefit of it, too. That's imho how open-source works (or should work). For Livna the correct place to report problems would be: http://bugzilla.livna.org/ Someone else noticed problems with the livna package and filed a bug yesterday evening after those updates were pushed: http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702 But the stupid madwifi-maintainer@livna does not own hardware that works with the madwifi (He packages it just for fun). That's the reason why he has to updated madwifi even if he does not know if it works. Therefor he put the latest update in livna-testing. It was there one week and some days and at least 60 people downloaded it. No one complained so it was published in the normal livna place. But is seems it does not work for most people. This is very frustrating for the livna maintainer. Sometimes these lack of feedback drives him mad and he considers to just drop the whole shit that he is packaging even if he does not use it... If someone did not get it up to here: yes, I'm the maintainer of that package. I apologize for this breakage. But it seems I need help on this from the users because I don't have madwifi-hardware. Is there anybody here that can help to co-maintain madwifi with me for livna? And somebody for ndiswrapper, too? > Good news. I installed sharutils, and then tried again with the madwifi > cvs download, using the command you gave above. > > For anyone else thinking of doing the same thing I hope to have updated packages ready soon. I'll post unofficial URLs later -- I would be glad if someone could try them to see if they work better before we publish them in livna (that might take until Monday) -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
