Re: Re: Re: Re: problem with ATMEL RFMD503A driver

Hi Arnaud,

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:

> Excuse me for this later answer but i have no time this days. People who
> lend me this card have modified the belkin usb adaptor to put an better
> antenna than the original. But they didn't do that correctly so i modify
> this wire between antenna and card and now i ping without any problem with
> the two drivers.

OK, didn't know you talked about the wire to the antenna.


> Now, the two drivers lists all APs found during scan and i can ping after
> i do ifconfig and configured properly the card. Before, i have following
> that you say (opened the netdevice after the driver found the APs)
> so the problem comes from wire between antenna and Atmel WLAN
> adaptor.
>
> I would like to thanks you a lot for your help... I would also
> to know what's the major difference between the atmel and the berlios
> driver ? Why do you say that the berlios driver are better ? ;)

The Berlios driver is a complete rewrite of the Sourceforge one with:
- Intersil radio support (SF dropped it in December 2002)
- problems with SMP kernels fixed
- IMHO a better structure of the code -> easier to maintain
- structured debug output -> easier to let users obtain debug information
- it tries to be endian clean for ports to big-endian machines
- no config script -> easier to compile
- no own config tools, just full support for iwconfig -> all graphical
  tools based on iwconfig run
I dealt with the Sourceforge driver in 2002 and felt the urgent need to
rewrite it completely. Oliver eventually started this project.

Regards,
Jörg