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John W. Linville
50da3ead62 ipw2100, ipw2200: select LIB80211
Otherwise some configs can result in missing print_ssid...

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-11-21 11:06:03 -05:00
John W. Linville
7e272fcff6 wireless: consolidate on a single escape_essid implementation
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31 19:00:46 -04:00
David Kilroy
23edcc4147 orinoco: Add MIC on TX and check on RX
Use the MIC algorithm from the crypto subsystem.

Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 19:28:07 -04:00
David Kilroy
3994d50201 orinoco: Invoke firmware download in main driver
Firmware download is enabled for Agere in orinoco_cs. Symbol firmware
download has been moved out of spectrum_cs into orinoco_cs. Firmware
download is not enabled for Intersil.

Symbol based firmware is restricted to only download on spectrum_cs
based cards.

The firmware names are hardcoded for each firmware type.

Signed-off-by: David Kilroy <kilroyd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 19:28:05 -04:00
Luis Carlos Cobo
d9c6350431 libertas_tf: config and makefile
Signed-off-by: Luis Carlos Cobo <luisca@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-22 16:29:56 -04:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
f078f20970 ath9k: Add new Atheros IEEE 802.11n driver
This adds the new mac80211 11n ath9k Atheros driver. Only STA support
is currently enabled and tested.

Signed-off-by: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilkumar@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.msbb.uc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Sujith Manoharan <Sujith.Manoharan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-07 09:49:42 -04:00
Andrea Merello
7c7e6af37d Rtl8187 PATCH add usb ID for asus wireless link
This patch from Davide Cavalca adds a usb ID for an rtl8187L device.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-08-01 15:31:34 -04:00
David S. Miller
a60f28fa93 Revert "remove the strip driver"
This reverts commit 94d9842403.

Alan says it's not appropriate to remove this driver,
Adrian Bunk also agrees with this revert.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-18 03:58:52 -07:00
Hin-Tak Leung
5c036b217a rtl8187: updating Kconfig to support RTL8187B
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-08 14:16:07 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
94d9842403 remove the strip driver
The latest trace about usage of this driver I found was an (unanswered)
request for help by a user trying to get it working reliably five years
ago with kernel 2.4 .

And even if it was still working the use cases of this driver (requiring
both the hardware and someone providing this kind of wireless network)
have become practically nonexisting.

This patch therefore removes the strip driver.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-26 16:49:13 -04:00
Jouni Malinen
acc1e7a300 mac80211_hwsim: 802.11 radio simulator for mac80211
mac80211_hwsim is a Linux kernel module that can be used to simulate
arbitrary number of IEEE 802.11 radios for mac80211 on a single
device. It can be used to test most of the mac80211 functionality and
user space tools (e.g., hostapd and wpa_supplicant) in a way that
matches very closely with the normal case of using real WLAN
hardware. From the mac80211 view point, mac80211_hwsim is yet another
hardware driver, i.e., no changes to mac80211 are needed to use this
testing tool.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-14 12:18:11 -04:00
Christian Lamparter
fb26971058 p54: move to separate directory
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-08 16:44:45 -04:00
Holger Schurig
04850a47aa libertas: don't depend on IEEE80211
Runtime-wise we only need escape_ssid from the deprecated IEEE80211
subsystem. However, it's easy to provide our own copy.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-01 17:13:17 -04:00
Holger Schurig
7d57961183 libertas: the compact flash driver is no longer experimental
Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-27 16:03:19 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
2079fcdc06 the scheduled bcm43xx removal
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13 16:01:04 -04:00
Daniel Drake
19ae3a6a96 ipw2100/ipw2200: note firmware loading caveat in Kconfig help text
Most wireless drivers load their firmware at interface open time, which
generally occurs after the filesystem is available. However, the ipw drivers
load their firmware at probe time because firmware is required to read the
device MAC address. When built-in, probe happens before the filesystem is
available, hence device init will only complete successfully if the user
has made special arrangements (including firmware plus a loader in the
initramfs).

Note all this in the kconfig help text for both drivers.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:37:15 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
e9ddc0f25c ath5k: Use our own Kconfig file, we'll be expanding this shortly
Apologoes, this is a re-post of patch-04, forgot to git-add
our Kconfig... New series (only 2 patches needed fixing, which
I am reposting) can be found here:

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/patches/ath5k/2008-02-04.v2/

Use our own Kconfig file, we'll be expanding this shortly.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:19:37 -05:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
d8ee398d18 ath5k: Port to new bitrate/channel API
Author: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>

Tested on 5211, 5213+5112, 5213A+2112A and it wors fine.

Also i figured out a way to process rate vallue found
on status descriptors, it's still buggy but we are getting
closer (i think it improved stability a little).

Changes to hw.c, initvals.c, phy.c
Changes-licensed-under: ISC

Changes to ath5k.h, base.c, base.h
Changes-licensed-under: 3-Clause-BSD

Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@winlab.rutgers.edu>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:19:35 -05:00
Johannes Berg
8318d78a44 cfg80211 API for channels/bitrates, mac80211 and driver conversion
This patch creates new cfg80211 wiphy API for channel and bitrate
registration and converts mac80211 and drivers to the new API. The
old mac80211 API is completely ripped out. All drivers (except ath5k)
are updated to the new API, in many cases I expect that optimisations
can be done.

Along with the regulatory code I've also ripped out the
IEEE80211_HW_DEFAULT_REG_DOMAIN_CONFIGURED flag, I believe it to be
unnecessary if the hardware simply gives us whatever channels it wants
to support and we then enable/disable them as required, which is pretty
much required for travelling.

Additionally, the patch adds proper "basic" rate handling for STA
mode interface, AP mode interface will have to have new API added
to allow userspace to set the basic rate set, currently it'll be
empty... However, the basic rate handling will need to be moved to
the BSS conf stuff.

I do expect there to be bugs in this, especially wrt. transmit
power handling where I'm basically clueless about how it should work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-02-29 15:19:32 -05:00
Jussi Kivilinna
bf164cc054 Add new driver 'rndis_wlan' for wireless RNDIS devices.
New driver for wireless RNDIS devices. So far only known chip that uses
wireless RNDIS is Broadcom 4320. Driver detects all RNDIS devices that
have RNDIS wireless physical medium. At least following devices are
detected:

  Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S
  U.S. Robotics USR5421
  Belkin F5D7051
  Linksys WUSB54GSv2
  Linksys WUSB54GSC
  Asus WL169gE
  Eminent EM4045
  BT Voyager 1055
  Linksys WUSB54GSv1
  U.S. Robotics USR5420
  BUFFALO WLI-USB-G54

Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-31 19:27:01 -08:00
Michael Wu
f653211197 Add rtl8180 wireless driver
This patch adds a mac80211 based wireless driver for the rtl8180 and
rtl8185 PCI wireless cards.  Also included are some rtl8187 changes
required due to the relationship between that driver and this one.

Michael Wu is primarily responsible for the initial driver and rtl8185
support.  Andreas Merello provided the additional rtl8180 support.

Thanks to Jukka Ruohonen for the donating a rtl8185 card! It was very
helpful for the rtl8225z2 code.

The Signed-off-by information below is collected from the individual
patches submitted to wireless-2.6 before merging this driver upstream.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <andreamrl@tiscali.it>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:35 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
fa1c114fda [PATCH] Net: add ath5k wireless driver
add ath5k wireless driver

Portions of this driver are covered by one or both of the ISC and
3-clause BSD licenses.  Specific license information is cited at the top
of each file.

Acked-by and Signed-off-by information is collected from individual
patches as collected in the wireless-2.6 tree prior to upstream
submission.

Acked-by: Matthew W. S. Bell  <mentor@madwifi.org>
Acked-by: Michael Taylor <mike.taylor@apprion.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Karen Sandler <karen@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Norwood <norwood@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Fontana <fontana@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Meis <meis@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-01-28 15:09:35 -08:00
Johann Felix Soden
889c94a14e Fix file references in documentation and Kconfig
Fix typo in arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree_env.h.
There is no Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt.

README.cycladesZ is now in Documentation/.
wavelan.p.h is now in drivers/net/wireless/.
HFS.txt is now Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt.
OSS-files are now in sound/oss/.

Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-22 10:43:36 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
61c93f4eb4 Merge branch 'fixes-jgarzik' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream-fixes 2007-12-22 23:25:16 -05:00
Michael Wu
7d2e941b0b p54: add Kconfig description
Some people would like to know what p54 is.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-12-19 21:31:01 -05:00
Dan Williams
aaf44a06b7 libertas: select WIRELESS_EXT
Ensure that libertas selects WIRELESS_EXT, since selecting other stuff that
should depend on WEXT, like IEEE80211, doesn't seem to drag that in for us.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-12-17 17:01:39 -05:00
John W. Linville
0f39c4ab03 hermes: clarify Intel reference in Kconfig help
The Intel device supported by the hermes driver core is the IPW2011.  The
"Intel PRO/Wireless" wording suggests the later Centrino devices and may
be confusing to some users.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10 04:25:10 -05:00
Pierre Ossman
727c26ed78 net: libertas sdio driver
Add driver for Marvell's Libertas 8385 and 8686 wifi chips.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
2007-10-17 22:51:13 +02:00
Michael Wu
eff1a59c48 [P54]: add mac80211-based driver for prism54 softmac hardware
Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:42 -07:00
Ivo van Doorn
95ea36275f [RT2x00]: add driver for Ralink wireless hardware
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:39 -07:00
Zhu Yi
b481de9ca0 [IWLWIFI]: add iwlwifi wireless drivers
This patch adds the mac80211 based wireless drivers for the Intel
PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection and Intel Wireless WiFi
Link AGN (4965) adapters.

[ Move driver into it's own directory -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:39 -07:00
Larry Finger
75388acd0c [B43LEGACY]: add mac80211-based driver for legacy BCM43xx devices
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:38 -07:00
Michael Buesch
e4d6b79518 [B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:37 -07:00
Holger Schurig
27590d06e1 [PATCH] add support for Marvell 8385 CF cards
This patch adds support for Marvell based 8385 compact flash cards.

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:49:56 -07:00
Faidon Liambotis
cfbde697e4 [PATCH] Kconfig: remove references of pcmcia-cs
pcmcia-cs/cardmgr is deprecated and mentioning it in the help text is
misleading.

Signed-off-by: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:49:35 -07:00
Faidon Liambotis
e12dcb05bf [PATCH] Kconfig: order options
Reorder the Atmel options so that the menu appears saner.
Before:
  < >   Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)
  <*>   Atmel at76c50x chipset  802.11b support
  < >     Atmel at76c506 PCI cards (NEW)
  < > Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards
  < > Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards (NEW)

After:
  < >   Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)
  <*>   Atmel at76c50x chipset  802.11b support
  < >     Atmel at76c506 PCI cards (NEW)
  < >     Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards (NEW)
  < >   Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards

Signed-off-by: Faidon Liambotis <paravoid@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:49:34 -07:00
Michael Wu
cc0b88cf5e [PATCH] Add adm8211 802.11b wireless driver
This patch adds a mac80211 wireless driver for ADMtek ADM8211 based
wireless cards.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10 16:49:33 -07:00
Michael Wu
605bebe23b [PATCH] Add rtl8187 wireless driver
This patch adds a mac80211 based wireless driver for the rtl8187 USB
wireless card.

Signed-off-by: Michael Wu <flamingice@sourmilk.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-08 22:16:36 -04:00
Dan Williams
d8efea2548 [PATCH] libertas: remove structure WLAN_802_11_SSID and libertas_escape_essid
Replace WLAN_802_11_SSID with direct 'ssid' and 'ssid_len' members
like ieee80211.  In the process, remove private libertas_escape_essid
and depend on the ieee80211 implementation of escape_essid instead.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-06-11 14:28:46 -04:00
Holger Schurig
084708b610 [PATCH] libertas: split module into two (libertas.ko and usb8xxx.ko)
* add CONFIG_LIBERTAS to Kconfig
* remove global variable libertas_fw_name, the USB module might want to
    use a different default FW name than the CF module, so libertas_fw_name
    is now local to if_usb.c
* exported some symbols as GPL

Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-06-11 14:28:39 -04:00
Martin Schwidefsky
f54bfc0e34 [S390] Kconfig: no wireless on s390.
Hide the config menues for wireless on s390.

Cc: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-10 15:46:08 +02:00
John W. Linville
42b1c8cc25 libertas: fix for wireless Kconfig changes
Need to change the libertas Kconfig entry to match changes made for
other wireless drivers.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-05-08 01:20:15 -04:00
Alexander E. Patrakov
39f5fb3035 kconfig: fix path to modules.txt in Kconfig help
Documentation/modules.txt doesn't exist, but
Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt does.

Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-05-02 20:58:11 +02:00
Marcelo Tosatti
876c9d3aeb [PATCH] Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11b/g USB driver
Add the Marvell Libertas 8388 802.11 USB driver.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28 11:00:54 -04:00
John W. Linville
42431592e7 [WIRELESS] drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig: correct minor typo
Correct minor typo in drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig identified by
Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:43 -07:00
Johannes Berg
2a5e1c0eb9 [WIRELESS]: Refactor wireless Kconfig.
This patch refactors the wireless Kconfig all over and already
introduces net/wireless/Kconfig with just the WEXT bit for now,
the cfg80211 patch will add to that as well.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:29:40 -07:00
Matt LaPlante
095096038d Fix several typos in drivers/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:31:37 +02:00
Zhu Yi
01d478338f [PATCH] ipw2200: always enable frequently used debugging code
Moving part of the debugging code from IPW_DEBUG to IPW_LL_DEBUG (low level
debugging) and make IPW_DEBUG be always enabled. IPW_LL_DEBUG still needs
to be enabled by selecting CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG. But it is highly
deprecated for normal users since it adds higher debug verbosity in driver
hot paths.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:31 -04:00
Robert Schulze
8fa9ea18e8 [PATCH] airo: should select crypto_aes
The driver airo (for Cisco Wlan-Cards) complains about "failed to load
transform for AES", when it is loaded and CRYPTO_AES is not selected
in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-07-27 14:37:30 -04:00
Daniel Drake
e85d0918b5 [PATCH] ZyDAS ZD1211 USB-WLAN driver
There are 60+ USB wifi adapters available on the market based on the ZyDAS
ZD1211 chip.

Unlike the predecessor (ZD1201), ZD1211 does not have a hardware MAC, so most
data operations are coordinated by the device driver. The ZD1211 chip sits
alongside an RF transceiver which is also controlled by the driver. Our driver
currently supports 2 RF types, we know of one other available in a few marketed
products which we will be supporting soon.

Our driver also supports the newer revision of ZD1211, called ZD1211B. The
initialization and RF operations are slightly different for the new revision,
but the main difference is 802.11e support. Our driver does not support the
QoS features yet, but we think we know how to use them.

This driver is based on ZyDAS's own GPL driver available from www.zydas.com.tw.
ZyDAS engineers have been responsive and supportive of our efforts, so thumbs
up to them. Additionally, the firmware is redistributable and they have
provided device specs.

This driver has been written primarily by Ulrich Kunitz and myself. Graham
Gower, Greg KH, Remco and Bryan Rittmeyer have also contributed. The
developers of ieee80211 and softmac have made our lives so much easier- thanks!

We maintain a small info-page: http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/DriverRewrite

If there is enough time for review, we would like to aim for inclusion in
2.6.18. The driver works nicely as a STA, and can connect to both open and
encrypted networks (we are using software-based encryption for now). We will
work towards supporting more advanced features in the future (ad-hoc, master
mode, 802.11a, ...).

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-07-05 13:42:58 -04:00