[arch-releng] [RFC] [PATCH] [configs/releng] Drop wireless_tools from live-enviroment

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 04.01.2014 19:36, schrieb Pierre Schmitz:
> Am 04.01.2014 19:18, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>> See FS#38075
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>
>> ---
>>  configs/releng/packages.both | 1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/configs/releng/packages.both b/configs/releng/packages.both
>> index 5ad6f44..d5329a1 100644
>> --- a/configs/releng/packages.both
>> +++ b/configs/releng/packages.both
>> @@ -53,7 +53,6 @@ testdisk
>>  usb_modeswitch
>>  vpnc
>>  wget
>> -wireless_tools
>>  wpa_actiond
>>  wvdial
>>  xl2tpd
> 
> Have all drivers been ported so they can be used with iw now? Quite some
> time ago my intel wireless wasn't supported afaik.

A number of legacy drivers still require Wireless Extensions. Most of
those are legacy drivers, but there are still some staging drivers and
of course ipw2{1,2}00. In any case, since wpa_supplicant fully supports
wext, there is no need for using wireless_tools directly.

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