On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 04:42:20PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > When we discussed the removal of the driver we weren't able to find any
> > realistic chance that people both have this hardware and this kind of
> > wireless network.
> >
> > What users do you know about?
>
> The modems worked both with base stations but they also support working
> as an adhoc star mode network and yes - people still use them for that in
> interesting places where 802.11 doesn't work nicely. And I got bug
> reports.. You can still plug em into a PC today and build ad-hoc star
> networks including funky stuff like dual modem full dupex.
>
> Of course if you'd bothered to discuss it anywhere I can find or read you
> might have found that out earlier.
It was discussed on linux-wireless which seems to be the appropriate
place for a driver under drivers/net/wireless/
If you consider yourself the maintainer of this driver, can you dump
the non-working URL from the MAINTAINERS entry (whose removal was my
original patch) and add yourself instead?
> Alan
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Adrian
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