Re: at76c503a and Kernel 2.6.14

Nick Steeves wrote...

> On November 10, 2005 4:08, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> > Everybody out there: Please test :-)
> It doesn't work for my:
> Bus 001 Device 009: ID 077b:2219 Linksys WUSB11 V2.6 802.11b Adapter
> 
> with Linux-2.6.14.2.

Too bad :-(

You're using WEP? I don't - I do not trust WEP and use a tunnel in
software, actually openvpn.

> Out of curiosity, why did your patch patch against a kernel tree?  Did you use 
> that kernel_patch.sh script?

I did the "make kernel_patch" that's included in the at76c503a source
since I prefer to have additional modules in my local kernel tree. The
patch indeed was against that one.

> > How are the chances to get this driver into the
> > main stream kernel anyway?
> I think that we would need a permanent maintainer to always make sure that our 
> USB driver compiles with the latest kernel.

Hm, is this project abandoned? I noticed that
http://at76c503a.berlios.de/ is empty which is at least confusing.
However I was very glad about this alternative to the atmelwlandriver
which was just a pain.

(...)

> Also, one 
> wonders what the plan for Linux WPA support is.  I seem to remember there 
> being generic WPA support, underneath that generic 802.11 stack.

I understand correctly that this would give WPA support to my 11b
Adapter? Sounds interesting and would prevent me from switching to 11g
which I'd mainly need for WPA.

    Christoph