Thanks for stepping up John.
I'm really new to the netdev area, but I thought I'd throw this out as
I've been watching this thread with interest...
The GPL Realtek driver Andrea Merello:
http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/
and
Ulrich Kunitz wrote:
I'm also working since a few weeks on a rewrite of the ZD1211. I'm
a little bit more progressed than you, because my driver already
loads the firmware and I'm able to set and read registers and I
have the initialization code done.
Thats almost exactly the stage we are at.
Phil Dibowitz wrote:
Thanks for stepping up John.
I'm really new to the netdev area, but I thought I'd throw this out as
I've been watching this thread with interest...
The GPL Realtek driver Andrea Merello:
http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/
and
John W. Linville wrote:
I realize there are some burning issues at the moment, especially the
DeviceScape vs. ieee80211 stack wars. I do not intend to pronounce
summary judgment on any issues here or in the immediate future.
Please do copy me on any important discussions, and feel free to
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 21:05 -0500, John W. Linville wrote:
If you are the maintainer of an out-of-tree driver or other component
(e.g. softmac), please let me hear from you (publicly or privately).
I want to be sure to identify all the major stakeholders. I would
also like to hear your plans
John W. Linville wrote :
If you are the maintainer of an out-of-tree driver or other component
(e.g. softmac), please let me hear from you (publicly or privately).
Complete and up to date list of driver and their contact
person is, and always has been, in the Linux WLAN Howto. As many
John W. Linville wrote:
If you are the maintainer of an out-of-tree driver or other component
(e.g. softmac), please let me hear from you (publicly or privately).
I want to be sure to identify all the major stakeholders. I would
also like to hear your plans for getting your code into the
Daniel Drake wrote:
FWIW, my opinion is that the devicescape code should be broken down and
used to extend the existing stack, no matter how 'good' it is. The way
it has been developed (i.e. totally outside of the ieee80211 stack) is
somewhat insulting to our development process.
Strongly
Hi,
I'm also working since a few weeks on a rewrite of the ZD1211. I'm
a little bit more progressed than you, because my driver already
loads the firmware and I'm able to set and read registers and I
have the initialization code done. The next step is reading
(scanninng) a beacon frame. So
A few days ago, Jeff Garzik reminded us all of the grossly imperfect
state of wireless (802.11 aka WiFi) networking in Linux. First in
his list of key issues was the lack of a permanent maintainer for the
kernel wireless code. Jeff approached me to see if I was interested
in that role, and after
From: John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:05:36 -0500
I hereby claim responsibility for the state of wireless networking
support in the Linux kernel.
Thanks for taking on this important role John. It is truly
appreciated. Even though it may end up feeling like a
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