From: Richard Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
To: lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: something about compact-wireless
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:11:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F332B69.6090009@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG9cJmmffGJBpefd5uz6DP=kjdxPPU7K6hrt0SF81hTL04hLCw@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/08/12 21:09, lina wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:
>> On 02/08/2012 11:05 AM, lina wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> The question i am going to ask might sounds silly, please forgive,
>>>
>>> do I need the compact-wireless in future? something about it's history?
>>
>> Obviously, you do not understand the reason for compat-wireless. It is used
>> to backport the wireless drivers in the development kernels so that they can
>> be used on older kernels. Whether you need it depends on what kernel you are
>> using, and what device(s) you have. The short answer is "probably not".
> Thanks for explaination.
>
> last night I installed the $ uname -a
> Linux debian 3.2.5
>
> Do I still need install the compact-wireless?
if you don't know if you need compat-wireless then you don't need
compat-wireless.
Enjoy.
-Rick
>
> Thanks again,
>
>> Larry
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-09 2:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-08 17:05 something about compact-wireless lina
2012-02-08 18:14 ` Larry Finger
2012-02-09 2:09 ` lina
2012-02-09 2:11 ` Richard Farina [this message]
2012-02-09 3:06 ` lina
2012-02-09 15:43 ` Pavel Roskin
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