Re: 0.13rc1 released.

Logan Owen <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:03:54 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.at76c503a.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I will try to update it to the latest version, and then post it...it
could be a few days until I get a chance...

Maxim Grechkin wrote:
> 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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