On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:01:56PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday, the free driver for the first time received data. It was > obviously a version I had hacked up, but we spec'ed the remaining bits > now. It only worked in PIO mode, but the b44 driver has pretty much the > same DMA engine. Any kind of encryption isn't handled yet unless you > want to do it in software (we know something is handled in hardware, but > not how much and what really). > > However, it is working at least somewhat. I don't know even if all data > rates work etc. because I have no good testing equipment. But basic > functionality is there. Just so you know. > > Now, don't check out the svn now and complain if nothing works. That's > expected. Remember we're working on two groups. But if you were going to > buy an external adapter now, you might want to wait :) > > I suppose it'll still be a few weeks until there's a driver that can > associate. And AP or ad-hoc mode will take much longer yet since we > still need to figure out what to do there.
Kudos to both groups for the great work you did ! I will be very happy to try crashing my machine with the test driver as soon as tomorrow, if the useless apple center i gave my machine to repair are done with hijacking it :) ciao, piem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
