Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:04:39 +1100 | From | David Gibson <> | Subject | Alternative driver for Lucent 802.11 cards |
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I've written a driver for the Lucent and Cabletron 802.11 cards, to replace the wvlan_cs driver. I'm looking for people to test this driver with as many card/firmware variations as possible.
The new driver doesn't use the Lucent HCF-Light code, and as a consequence the code should be easier to follow. The locking is also slightly more sophisticated in that this driver shouldn't leave IRQs disabled for long periods of time like wvlan_cs can.
The driver is basically complete, although it lacks a few features of wvlan_cs (some less used iwconfig settings). Currently it supports the Lucent and Cabletron cards, and it partially works (no WEP) on at least one Prism based card (the Farallon Skyline). I hope to make it support the Apple Airport cards as well, eventually.
wvlan_cs, the linux-wlan driver and the NetBSD if_wi driver were all used quite heavily as references in writing this driver. This driver is written (currently) strictly for use with 2.4 - it won't work with 2.2 or with the out-of-the-kernel pcmcia modules (mostly for trivial reasons).
Currently it's not nicely packaged. The various files can be grabbed from: http://www.linuxcare.com.au/dgibson/dldwd/ How to build and install the driver is left as an exercise to the reader.
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