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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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> Does anyone know? |
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> -- |
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> Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! |
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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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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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