* Future handling of AR5416
@ 2008-08-06 2:46 Larry Finger
2008-08-06 2:53 ` Pavel Roskin
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From: Larry Finger @ 2008-08-06 2:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: wireless
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
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* Re: Future handling of AR5416
2008-08-06 2:46 Future handling of AR5416 Larry Finger
@ 2008-08-06 2:53 ` Pavel Roskin
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From: Pavel Roskin @ 2008-08-06 2:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry Finger; +Cc: wireless
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
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