Re: 0.13rc1 released.

"Maxim Grechkin" <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:47:37 +0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.at76c503a.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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Maxim