Card not officially supported by the driver (yet).

Hi everyone. First let me say that the Berlios driver is so much easier
to understand and use and far better documented then the sourceforge
one. Thank you.

Now here's my situation. My company has purchased a SlimPro600 PC from
Cappuccino.com and we will be purchasing quite a few more. They came
with the sourceforge drivers on a drivers CD. I thought I was set, until
I tried to use them. Tried a few different versions, release and CVS,
never got anywhere. Had the Berlios up within an hour, but not without
trial and error. 

This computer is about the size of a shoebox and has "integrated" wifi.
However the integrated Wifi is a USB card of somekind... or attached via
USB... or something. I've never seen anything like it (haven't opened
the box to physically see it...). 

I had to add the following to the source code to get the driver to work:
...
#define VENDOR_ID_UNICOMPLABS 0x12fd
#define PRODUCT_ID_UNICOMPLABS_SLIMPRO600 0x1001 /* cappuccinopc.com,
Slim Pro 600 */

static struct usb_device_id dev_table[] = {
   { USB_DEVICE(VENDOR_ID_UNICOMPLABS, PRODUCT_ID_UNICOMPLABS_SLIMPRO600
) },
...

It doesn't work perfectly... connections fine, wep works and everything,
I just can't get Link Quality or Noise Level data off of iwconfig. Maybe
thats just a limitation of the card... i don't know... Not a big deal.

But here's the odd thing (to me anyways... ) it doesn't matter what
driver I put that code in... 503, 505 whatever... any of the five, and
the card works. So whats the approriate driver to use? Does it really
matter? Are there going to be benefits or consequences (Stability, etc).
For somereason my gut told me to put it in at76c505-rfmd.c. My guts
usually right... ;)

Sorry for the long winded message... but I'd like to get this ironed
out, because I plan to send the system manufacturer these drivers (with
my addition) once I know that I made the right changes... and hopefully
the changes will make it into the next driver release (is the driver
still being updated?)

-- 
Kurt Ortwein LPIC-1, MCSE, A+
[email protected]