Re: 0.13rc1 released.
"Maxim Grechkin" <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:35:11 +0400
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Thanks. On 6/26/06, Logan Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > >> >> >> > 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 > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > at76c503a-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/at76c503a-user > -- Maxim