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On 7/16/07, Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Am Montag 16 Juli 2007 14:31 schrieb Mark Haney: |
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> > Okay, here's just a general question I'd like to get some info (or at |
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> > least opinions) on. I've been reading up on the changes to the latest |
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> > stable kernel (2.6.22) and the rewrite of the WiFi driver architecture. |
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> > One of the things I noticed was that my chipset (Broadcom) has drivers |
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> > in the upstream kernel, but wasn't included in the rewrite and that only |
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> > a handful of drivers we stable enough for the .22 kernel. My question |
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> > is this, how does the new kernel affect the existing drivers? Ie, will |
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> > I stil be able to use the .22 kernel with my broadcom/ndiswrapper |
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> > combination until a new driver from upstream is stable? |
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> > |
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> > Does anyone know? |
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> > -- |
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> > Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Mark Haney |
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> > Sr. Systems Administrator |
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> > ERC Broadband |
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> > (828) 350-2415 |
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> > |
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> > Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support |
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> As far as I know there is not a single driver based on the new interface, yet. |
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> Therefore the old interface is still included and your drivers should work. |
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I've got a orinoco card which I believe is using the new mac80211 code |
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- its the only wireless stack I'm compiling into the kernel. |
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Whatever, I'm glad they decided to standardize this. |
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Wil |
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