From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:63609 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751751AbYKQOY7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:24:59 -0500 Subject: Re: Wireless gear on the Romanian market From: Pavel Roskin To: Johannes Berg Cc: razvan.sandu@zando.ro, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1226832934.5125.21.camel@johannes.berg> References: <491FF82C.4070207@zando.ro> (sfid-20081116_114659_954211_EE0A4D35) <1226832934.5125.21.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:24:55 -0500 Message-Id: <1226931895.15076.11.camel@dv> (sfid-20081117_152503_081894_99CC5688) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html