From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com (ra.tuxdriver.com [70.61.120.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0533D67BC1 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 23:17:04 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 09:16:35 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Chun Chung Lo Subject: Re: Wireless Linux(802.11) for Embedded PowerPC Message-ID: <20060907131630.GA784@tuxdriver.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Cc: wei.li4@elf.mcgill.ca, linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:23:08AM +0800, Chun Chung Lo wrote: > Also I cannot see any drivers existing in the upstream kernel are really > support the "Intersil Prism 2 WLAN" cards (my card is differ from those > Orinoco cards and Hermes cards, also the drivers are also differ a lot). I think you may be mistaken. The orinoco drivers in the upstream kernel seem to support all the same device IDs as are supported in the linux-wlan code. If your card is missing, it is likely a simple matter of a missing device ID. But, major code changes are probably not necessary. (USB-based devices may be an exception....see http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/ for experimental support.) > If you are going to use Intersil Prism 2 cards/chips, I would suggest > you to use the linux-wlan driver (but seems this driver does not support > AP mode yet...) Please don't encourage people to patronize dead projects when the upstream kernel should work for them. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com