* Re: Using 802.11x wireless usb device on MIPS platform [not found] <1cf601c73399$2ab7cd10$106215ac@realtek.com.tw> @ 2007-01-09 14:09 ` Ralf Baechle 2007-01-09 18:52 ` Michael Wu 0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread From: Ralf Baechle @ 2007-01-09 14:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: colin; +Cc: linux-mips, netdev On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:52:14AM +0800, colin wrote: > I have used two 802.11x wireless usb devices successfully on MIPS platform. > One is realtek 8187 and the other one is ralink 2571. > I would like to put them into kernel tree and then I found that there are > not many 802.11x devices supported in Linux. If you want to submit a driver to the kernel, please post it to netdev@vger.kernel.org. Don't expect a driver to be just accepted; it will go through a thorough review and after all the issues have been resolved it will be accepted. > Moreover, there is no any wireless usb device supported. Wireless support under Linux is suffering from several problems: o some core require microcode to be loaded but the vendor does not give such permission. o lack of documentation, sometimes for paranoid or bogus legal reasons or "intellectual property" concerns. At times it really seems vendors are working to maximize pain for the user ... > It is also very strange that 8187 and 2571 both have their own ieee802.11x > stack and crypt drivers. It seems that Linux doesn't offer them. > I am wondering why Linux is so complex in 802.11x. Well, for one thing because 802.11 is complex. The Linux wireless support has gone through several generations; some of the wireless work was for one or the other reason never integrated in the kernel.org kernel. Ralf ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* Re: Using 802.11x wireless usb device on MIPS platform 2007-01-09 14:09 ` Using 802.11x wireless usb device on MIPS platform Ralf Baechle @ 2007-01-09 18:52 ` Michael Wu 0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread From: Michael Wu @ 2007-01-09 18:52 UTC (permalink / raw) To: colin; +Cc: Ralf Baechle, linux-mips, netdev [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 859 bytes --] On Tuesday 09 January 2007 09:09, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:52:14AM +0800, colin wrote: > > I have used two 802.11x wireless usb devices successfully on MIPS > > platform. One is realtek 8187 and the other one is ralink 2571. > > I would like to put them into kernel tree and then I found that there are > > not many 802.11x devices supported in Linux. > Please see the wireless-dev tree. There is a driver for the ralink 2571 in there which will be merged along with a number of other wireless drivers when the devicescape 802.11 (d80211) wireless stack is sufficiently polished. New softmac wireless drivers should be based on that stack if possible. I am working on a d80211 version of the rtl8187/rtl8185 driver right now, which is I think is the last linux 802.11g driver which needs to be ported. -Michael Wu [-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
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