[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#498478: network-manager: rely on deprecated CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS kernel option for wireless cards

[Vincent Danjean]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: important

  Hi,

  Since a few days, kernel maintainers have disabled the (uptream) deprecated
kernel option CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS (look at the current
linux-image-2.6.27-rc5-amd64 in the Debian kernel team repo).
  When I use this kernel, my wireless card (Intel 4965 AG) is seen as a wired
connection by network-manager (iwconfig or iwlist work perfectly). So, I think
that network-manager rely on this deprecated kernel option to detect wireless
cards.

  This will need to be fixed quickly after lenny (when the kernel team will
upload 2.6.27 in sid) in order not to break network-manager for all wifi users
[if my analyse if correct, of course]

  This bug does not concern lenny as CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS is set in
lenny's kernels.

  Best regards,
    Vincent

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcdbd                        3.0-4      D-Bus interface to the ISC DHCP cl
ii  hal                           0.5.11-3   Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.8+nmu1 high level tools to configure netw
ii  iproute                       20080725-2 networking and traffic control too
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-3    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.76-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.1-1    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.16.5-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgpg-error0                 1.4-2      library for common error values an
ii  libhal1                       0.5.11-3   Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libiw29                       29-1.1     Wireless tools - library
ii  libnl1                        1.1-2      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-util0                   0.6.6-2    network management framework (shar
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.4-2    Client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.6.6-2    network management framework (GNOM

network-manager suggests no packages.

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