Linux Drivers needed for 802.11

Linux Drivers needed for 802.11

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

Greg,

http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DriversNeeded#802_11_Wireless_Network_cards

This has a list of "needed" 802.11 drivers. It needs some updating as
we have quite a few new drivers and some are already in the works. I
was about to update this list to reflect our current driver list and
also add all 802.11n info I have but considered fist moving it to
linuxwireless.org so we can arrange this a bit better. Reason for
doing so is to let us arrange it as we can keep better track of it. I
still think we should use LinuxDriverProject to inform developers of
new driver efforts needed and to try to help spawn such projects and
keep track of them. Any comments on this suggested arrangement?

  Luis

Re: Linux Drivers needed for 802.11

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:24:20AM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DriversNeeded#802_11_Wireless_Network_cards
> 
> This has a list of "needed" 802.11 drivers. It needs some updating as
> we have quite a few new drivers and some are already in the works. I
> was about to update this list to reflect our current driver list and
> also add all 802.11n info I have but considered fist moving it to
> linuxwireless.org so we can arrange this a bit better. Reason for
> doing so is to let us arrange it as we can keep better track of it.

If you want to pull from the wiki, please do so, and feel free to point
that section at your page.  But unless you have a spot that users can
edit on their own, it might be good to leave something on the
linuxdriverproject wiki for people to do so.

And along the 802.11n front, I'm _this_ close to getting a major
chipset's specs, so hopefully we might have some more work for you to do
soon :)

Now of only the lawyers would hurry up...

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Linux Drivers needed for 802.11

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Nov 20, 2007 12:41 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:24:20AM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > Greg,
> >
> > http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DriversNeeded#802_11_Wireless_Network_cards
> >
> > This has a list of "needed" 802.11 drivers. It needs some updating as
> > we have quite a few new drivers and some are already in the works. I
> > was about to update this list to reflect our current driver list and
> > also add all 802.11n info I have but considered fist moving it to
> > linuxwireless.org so we can arrange this a bit better. Reason for
> > doing so is to let us arrange it as we can keep better track of it.
>
> If you want to pull from the wiki, please do so, and feel free to point
> that section at your page.  But unless you have a spot that users can
> edit on their own, it might be good to leave something on the
> linuxdriverproject wiki for people to do so.

Well anyone can edit the wiki, so yes, we do have plenty of pages
users can use to edit and elaborate on. To be more specific what we
can do is have a scratch page where users can add drivers they *think*
are not yet written. A few of us can then monitor that page by
subscribing and then we can incorporate that info into our wiki. Sure
users who are sure of things can just go ahead and expand our pages
(we have no restrictions). From the looks on the LiuxDriverProject
page on what drivers are needed it seems *a lot* of users don't know
of a lot of current work being done or that has been done already.

> And along the 802.11n front, I'm _this_ close to getting a major
> chipset's specs, so hopefully we might have some more work for you to do
> soon :)

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> Now of only the lawyers would hurry up...

!!!!

  Luis

Re: Linux Drivers needed for 802.11

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:52:06AM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 12:41 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 12:24:20AM -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > > Greg,
> > >
> > > http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DriversNeeded#802_11_Wireless_Network_cards
> > >
> > > This has a list of "needed" 802.11 drivers. It needs some updating as
> > > we have quite a few new drivers and some are already in the works. I
> > > was about to update this list to reflect our current driver list and
> > > also add all 802.11n info I have but considered fist moving it to
> > > linuxwireless.org so we can arrange this a bit better. Reason for
> > > doing so is to let us arrange it as we can keep better track of it.
> >
> > If you want to pull from the wiki, please do so, and feel free to point
> > that section at your page.  But unless you have a spot that users can
> > edit on their own, it might be good to leave something on the
> > linuxdriverproject wiki for people to do so.
> 
> Well anyone can edit the wiki, so yes, we do have plenty of pages
> users can use to edit and elaborate on. To be more specific what we
> can do is have a scratch page where users can add drivers they *think*
> are not yet written. A few of us can then monitor that page by
> subscribing and then we can incorporate that info into our wiki. Sure
> users who are sure of things can just go ahead and expand our pages
> (we have no restrictions). From the looks on the LiuxDriverProject
> page on what drivers are needed it seems *a lot* of users don't know
> of a lot of current work being done or that has been done already.

I agree, part of the work is to clean up those entries.  And your group
knows this area the best, so please, feel free to do so and point people
back at your wiki, I have no problem with that at all.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: Linux Drivers needed for 802.11

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 00:24 -0500, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> http://linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DriversNeeded#802_11_Wireless_Network_cards
> 
> This has a list of "needed" 802.11 drivers. It needs some updating as
> we have quite a few new drivers and some are already in the works. I
> was about to update this list to reflect our current driver list and
> also add all 802.11n info I have but considered fist moving it to
> linuxwireless.org so we can arrange this a bit better. Reason for
> doing so is to let us arrange it as we can keep better track of it. I
> still think we should use LinuxDriverProject to inform developers of
> new driver efforts needed and to try to help spawn such projects and
> keep track of them. Any comments on this suggested arrangement?

InProComm 2120 chipset is unsupported, but I doubt many people will care
because it's a b-only chipset.  However, I believe that InproComm got
bought in 2004 by MediaTek, which makes a lot of embedded 802.11 parts
for which there are no wireless drivers at all.  I've got two IPN 2120
MiniPCI cards if somebody wants to take a stab at one.

There is also no support for the AboCom Systems, Inc. SDIO Wifi cards
like the SDW11G:

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=SDW11G&cpc=SCH

There is a mac80211 driver for 88w8335 that's a port of the mrv8k driver
here:

http://david.woodhou.se/mrv.tar.gz

There's also a whole host of SIS chips, the 160u, 162u, and 163u.  These
are found in (for example) the TRENDnet TEW-424UB v2.  SIS released
linux drivers for the 160 and 162, but they are atheros/nvidia-style
binary blob modules.

Dan