Re: [opensuse-factory] opensuse 11.3 (m6) and mobile compatibility

Il 19/05/2010 00:26, Greg Freemyer ha scritto:

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Andrea Florio wrote:

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Hi people, i got today, for the first time, some of the famous usb modem like huawei ones (and not only). i got them coz i am supposed to write something about linux compatibility. on suse 11.2 i'm quite happy, after upgrade usb_modeswitch (from 0.9.6 into OSS to 1.1.2) to latest version (into hardware OBS repo) i had ALL of them working just plug and play.

i thought that with suse 11.3 it would be even easier... you know, more recent kernel, more recent packages, more recent everything... instead...

well instead, not only none of the worked, but looks their support has been even dropped... usb_modeswitch is not even into factory repo (why???) so...

the question is... any reason to drop that important hardware support? someone just forgot to submit requestes or what else? (i am ready to take care of that package and others needed to provide that support on suse 11.3, IMHO it's a MUST HAVE)

Regards Andrea

This was discussed on the os-kernel list last week.

usb_modeswitch is desired, but it was dropped from factory due to the lack of a maintainer. I don't know if it's too late to get into 11.3 or not.

Greg

ok, i am going to take care of it.. it's too important, not have into the repo, means we will loose lots of users that will easly move to ubuntu. i don0t want it, i want suse to be the best distro ever (that's why i pushed so hard on lxde). do not provide such as important package is like killing ourselfs Andrea -- ------------------------------------------ Andrea Florio QSI International School of Brindisi Sys Admin CISCO CCNA Certified openSUSE-Education Administrator openSUSE Official Member (anubisg1) Email: andrea@opensuse.org Packman Packaging Team Email: andrea@links2linux.de Web: http://packman.links2linux.org/ Cell: +39-328-7365667 ------------------------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org