Future handling of AR5416

Future handling of AR5416

[Larry Finger]

In my helping with wireless on the openSUSE Forums, I recently tried to help a 
user with an AR5416 (Vendor ID 168c, PCI ID 0023). The user has kernel 2.6.25.11 
and gets the "Device not yet supported." message. By looking at the code, I see 
that same situation still exists in wireless-testing.

So that I may advise the OP accurately, will this chip be supported in the near 
future, or should I recommend that he use ndiswrapper?

Larry

Re: Future handling of AR5416

[Pavel Roskin]

On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 21:46 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> In my helping with wireless on the openSUSE Forums, I recently tried to help a 
> user with an AR5416 (Vendor ID 168c, PCI ID 0023). The user has kernel 2.6.25.11 
> and gets the "Device not yet supported." message. By looking at the code, I see 
> that same situation still exists in wireless-testing.
> 
> So that I may advise the OP accurately, will this chip be supported in the near 
> future, or should I recommend that he use ndiswrapper?

That's a nicely timed question!  Today's (but not yesterday's :-))
wireless-testing does support AR5416 with the new ath9k driver.

Unfortunately, ath9k is not in compat-wireless.  I heard it may be hard
to backport the current wireless drivers.

Anyway, MadWifi trunk (not 0.9.4) supports AR5416, and it's a nicer
driver than ndiswrapper IMHO.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin