From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: razvan.sandu@zando.ro, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Wireless gear on the Romanian market
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:24:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1226931895.15076.11.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226832934.5125.21.camel@johannes.berg>
On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 11:55 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-11-16 at 12:38 +0200, R=E3zvan Sandu wrote:
>=20
> > Now, please, is it possible to find out which of these products are=
=20
> > supported in Linux (or will be in the foreseable future) ? This=20
> > information is critical to Romanian Linux users, as well as others.=
=2E.
>=20
> There's information on this on http://wireless.kernel.org/ and if you
> post the chipsets the devices use we can tell you whether we support
> them or not. But I doubt anyone will go to the trouble and researchin=
g
> the manufacturers for you.
It should be possible to find Windows drivers for the devices, unpack
them and identify what chipsets they are for. It may happen that
different revisions of the same hardware use different chipsets, so be
sure to check all of the revisions.
The unpacking can be done by running installers in wine or by using
popular archive programs, such as cabextract, unshield, unzip, unrar an=
d
lha. Identification of the driver can be done by looking into *.inf
files or by using the "strings" command on the *.sys files.
As for the draft 802.11n devices, Intel and Atheros chipsets are
currently supported, except Atheros USB (the work on it is underway).
--=20
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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2008-11-16 10:38 Wireless gear on the Romanian market Răzvan Sandu
2008-11-16 10:55 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-17 14:24 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
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