Re: status of at76-usb driver

[Claudio <der.claudio@aon.at>]

Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi> wrote:
> Claudio <der.claudio@aon.at> writes:
>
>> my at76 hardware: Netgear MA101 rev.B
>>
>> experiences:
>> - works with Ubuntu 7.10 with stand-alone at76-usb-0.17 package
>> - AFAIR didn\'t work with Ubuntu 7.10 out-of-the-box
>> - didn\'t work with Ubuntu 8.10 (even didn\'t when I tried to install the
>>   old stand-alone version)

Last one is wrong. See below.

> I tried twice with latest Ubuntu 8.10 (updated yesterday) and kernel
> oopsed both time for me:

So it did for me.

But the at76_usb that comes with Ubuntu 8.10 is actually a (very old)
0.14beta1 version. Try $ strings /lib/modules/`uname \\
-r`/kernel/ubuntu/misc/wireless/at76/at76_usb.ko | egrep \'0.1[47]\'

Ad 1: It seems like Ubuntu ships an outdated version of the old
stand-alone driver.

Ad 2: I\'ve found a work-around (I\'ve tried this earlier but it did not
work for any reason): adapting and compiling the 0.17 version of the old
stand-alone driver (http://developer.berlios.de/projects/at76c503a/) ->
It works again.

Since this is not the perfect solution I would like to find out how to
enable the at76 driver from the staging tree and then vote for doing the
same in the Ubuntu kernel package. Well, how do I enable this driver
anyway?

Or what do you think we should do?

Claudio