Re: [PATCH 2.6] Intersil Prism54 wireless driver

From: Jean Tourrilhes
Date: Wed Mar 03 2004 - 21:51:12 EST


On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 09:37:55PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > Hi Dave & Jeff,
> >
> > The attached .bz2 file is a patch for 2.6.3 adding the
> >Intersil Prism54 wireless driver. Sorry for the attachement, the file
> >is rather big, if you want inline+plaintext, I'll send that personal
> >to you.
> > I've been using this driver with great success on 2.6.3 and
> >2.6.4-rc1 (SMP). This driver support various popular CardBus and PCI
> >802.11g cards (54 Mb/s) based on the Intersil PrismGT/PrismDuette
> >chipset.
> > I would like this driver to go into 2.6.X. However, I
> >understand that it's lot's of code to review.
>
>
> I would like it to go into 2.6 too :) I'm glad somebody submitted it.
>
> I'll review it this weekend... and hopefully some other netdev denizens
> will review as well and post their comments.
>
> Jeff

By the way, I should note that during my test I had
difficulties to associate with Aironet cards, but it looked like it
was a firmware related issue (firmware timing out). The rest work fine
(managed to Lucent, Ad-Hoc to another Prism54, scanning,
WE). Actually, this is the driver I used to develop ifrename.
Have fun...

Jean

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