Re: 0.13rc1 released.
"Maxim Grechkin" <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:47:37 +0400
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Could you post your patch here? On 6/26/06, Logan Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > I at one time did some work on getting WPA into the driver, but I am not > that good of a programmer, and don't have very much time. However, in > all my research i found nothing to indicate the fact that the driver > could not support WPA in software for all devices. I may be wrong on > this point, however. the atmelwlandriver does not have support for all > cards, but that is because they only went with hardware support. > > I had patches for an older version of the driver to begin bringing in > support for WPA, but it was at the VERY early stages. The furthest I > got was that it correctly interpreted and displayed the wpa_ie element > to iwlist. > > logan > > Maxim Grechkin wrote: > > I thought that WPA has some other aero frames that this device > > couldnot send. Do atmelwlandriver support wpa on all devices? Can you > > help with wpa? > > > > On 6/25/06, Logan Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From my past research, it true that only some cards have hardware WPA > >> support through firmware, but that it would be possible to give software > >> WPA support to the cards that lack this functionality. For most > >> computers, this would not make much of a difference in performance. > >> > >> Logan > >> > >> Maxim Grechkin wrote: > >> > Please test 0.13 final. It seems to me that we need special firmware > >> > for wpa support. But it is not available for some types of card (e.g. > >> > 505-rfmd2958 as I have). For firmware see > >> > http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel/ and find if there is firmware for > >> > your card with wpa suffix. > >> > > >> > On 6/24/06, Mark Sansome <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Yup!! Works just fine for me! Thanks! > >> >> > >> >> Running a Belkin F5D6050 on Fedora Core 5 - Kernel 2.6.16-1.2133_FC5 > >> >> > >> >> Excellent work - Well Done! > >> >> > >> >> Any likelihood of WPA support one day? > >> >> > >> >> Thanks again! > >> >> > >> >> Mark > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:02:53PM +0400, Maxim Grechkin wrote: > >> >> > I have just uploaded 0.13rc1. It is the first release without 2.4 > >> >> > kernel support. But it have a lot of fixes for 2.6 kernels. > >> >> > > >> >> > -- > >> >> > > >> >> > Maxim > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > >> >> > at76c503a-user mailing list > >> >> > [email protected] > >> >> > http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/at76c503a-user > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> > > >> > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> at76c503a-user mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/at76c503a-user > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > at76c503a-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/at76c503a-user > -- Maxim