Re: [Madwifi-devel] ar5k and Atheros AR5005G

2006-12-05 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi all. To make things easier for development I'd like to suggest a few madwif ibranches created: * madwifi-1152-openhal: based on madwifi-1152, patched with my patch, added openhal, old hal removed. Working free solution. Should exist just as a reference and to allow users to checkout a

Re: [Madwifi-devel] ar5k and Atheros AR5005G

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. On Wednesday 29 November 2006 16:24, David Kimdon wrote: There is absolutely no reason why dadwifi can't be merged into the mainline once the hal issue is resolved. Last time we talked about that stuff, it was decided that we don't want a HAL... See archives. IIRC Pavel already

Re: [Madwifi-devel] ar5k and Atheros AR5005G

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Michael Buesch wrote: IIRC Pavel already explained that getting rid of the HAL per se should be no problem - it could easily be dissolved into the driver, if that is one of the requirements to be fulfilled before the driver (MadWifi or DadWifi) is considered for mainline inclusion. As soon

Re: [Madwifi-devel] ANNOUNCE: SFLC helps developers assess ar5k (enabling free Atheros HAL)

2006-11-16 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. At least, this way we have a chance to get USB working as well (See http://madwifi.org/ticket/33). It's not the HAL that prevents MadWifi implementing USB support. Replacing the binary-only HAL with OpenHAL and/or dissolving the HAL functionality in the driver source does not get us any

Re: [Madwifi-devel] ANNOUNCE: SFLC helps developers assess ar5k (enabling free Atheros HAL)

2006-11-15 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Michael Buesch wrote: Well, it never worked for me. But I gave up trying about half a year ago. But maybe it's just stupid me. ;) Well, we have various support channels (an IRC channel besides two mailing lists, for example) that you are welcome to make use of in case of problems :)

Re: Broadcom 43xx first results

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 19:00 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote: Why yet another attempt to write 802.11 stack? Sure, the one currently in the kernel is unusable and everybody knows about it. But why not to improve code opensourced by Devicescape some time ago instead of inventing the wheel again and

Re: Broadcom 43xx first results

2005-12-05 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 13:46 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Although I'm a bit biased towards MadWifi, I'd second your suggestion to make use of the Devicescape code. The benefit of having a fully-blown 802.11 stack in the kernel that drivers can make use of has been discussed before, so I

Re: Question on manual bridging.

2005-11-22 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:26 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: Connected to eth0 is a PC with MAC address AA, which is exactly the same MAC address as ms1 has (this is to work around the fact that a wifi interface can't really go into promisc mode or send frames with a different source MAC

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Mateusz Berezecki wrote: Im sending a series of 8 patches splitted and diffed as in SubmittingPatches documentation. Patch 4/8 is missing here. Bye, Mike -- Use PGP/GPG! My key: http://keys.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/lookup?op=getsearch=62C29B94 Fingerprint: BC2E 79BF 0C8F 0282 864B 9CEC 8343