linux-wlan-ng

[Adam Lydick]

Hey Matt,

Sorry to break threading, but I noticed your post to ubuntu-devel while
I was searching over the forums mirror for some info about what network
hardware has support planned for it.

Regarding the linux-wlan-ng drivers:

- The control interface is not entirely compatible with the wireless
control interface. Last I checked, it was "read only" for iwconfig.

- Sadly, it is the only set of drivers that work with my Speedstream
802.11b USB adapter.

This might not be true any more:

http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/devices/ - seems to have some CVS support
for some USB devices. I don't know if this includes mine.

Thanks,

- Adam

> It seems to be the case that there are still a number of cards which
> are
> supported by the linux-wlan-ng drivers, and not by any drivers we
> currently
> ship. One example is the SMC 2632W.
> 
> Are these drivers supportable? Should we consider integrating them?
> I've
> never owned a card which required them, but I seem to recall that they
> used
> an incompatible set of tools for configuring wireless parameters. Is
> that
> still true?
> 
> -- 
> - mdz
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