Hermes II driver

Hermes II driver

[Hendrik-Jan Heins]

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Dear all,

I'm not sending this mail because I am the author of the following work.
I am simply the person that tried to find out, who could benefit from
this driver and rework it.

Let me first introduce myself. My name is Hendrik-Jan Heins, I am the
maintainer of http://linux-wless.passys.nl

A couple of days ago I was approached by someone who modded the Agere
driver to also work with the HermesII chipset. One of the things he
changed, was the possibility to add firmware to the driver.
The name of this person is Jan Pieter, and his e-mail address is:
pptp@NOSPAM.jp.dhs.org (remove the NOSPAM)
He published his driver at:http://www.xs4all.nl/~pptp/agere/wlags49.tar.bz2

Here's the rest of what he sent me about the driver:

Before April 27 2007, there was no Linux 2.6.* driver for the Speedtouch
110 PCMCIA wireless card. It does NOT work with the orinoco driver
because it needs it's firmware to be uploaded to the device on
initialization. The orinoco driver does not do that. There was a working
driver source on the Agere site, but that is for 2.4 kernels only. I
found a 2.6 patch for that source, but it's HermesI only. The Speedtouch
110 is HermesII. So I gave it a try and made it work for HermesII! Here
it is.

As I understood, his health is not very good, but I guess you can always
contact him about his modifications.

I hope this helps the effort to get more cards supported in Linux.

cheers,

Hendrik-Jan Heins

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Re: Hermes II driver

[Holger Schurig]

> to the device on initialization. The orinoco driver does not
> do that. There was a working driver source on the Agere site,
> but that is for 2.4 kernels only. I found a 2.6 patch for that
> source, but it's HermesI only. The Speedtouch 110 is HermesII.

I once wrote a patch to convert an older Hermes I/II driver to 
Kernel 2.6.15. It also did this only for an older version of the 
driver, 7.18 but not 7.22. Is the patch you found for a newer 
kernel/Agere driver version?

Re: Hermes II driver

[Hendrik-Jan Heins]

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Holger,

I really don't know much about the driver itself, as I don't own such a
card and I never used the driver.
I do know that the builder got it working on a kernel 2.6.18 (he didn't
try anything newer).
I also have no idea what agere driver version is the basis for his package.

I guess the best way to get more answers is to send an e-mail to the
address mentioned in my previous message.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Hendrik-Jan

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