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[Malcolm Priestley <162671@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim,

Why does this driver continues to be disabled in Precise and Quantal ?

There no problems with the current stable release kernels.

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Title:
  VT6656 wireless chipset is unsupported

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux-source-2.6.22” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in “linux-source-2.6.22” source package in Precise:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
  Won't Fix
Status in “linux-source-2.6.22” source package in Quantal:
  Invalid
Status in “linux” source package in Raring:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux-source-2.6.22” source package in Raring:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  VIA has released driver source without a license.  Please take a few
  minutes to post to viaarena encouraging VIA to re-release the driver
  with an appropriate license included:

  http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=78745

  This is probably the quickest way to get support for this chipset.

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