Hi, We are happy to announce the first development release of the wireless firmware + driver compatible with the kernel's mac80211 stack. This is a first step towards supporting a soft Access Point (hostap) on the xo, a project in which are actively working.
The release is made of the following pieces: Firmware: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/thinfirm Driver: git clone git://dev.laptop.org/users/javier/libertastf.git HOW_TO: http://dev.laptop.org/pub/firmware/libertas/thinfirm/HOW_TO Release Notes: - Implemented mac80211 support for scanning, association and rate adaptation. - No power management nor security is supported. - Driver can coexist with original libertas driver but we recommend blacklisting one of them in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and rmmod/modprobe when willing to experiment with it. - The driver has been greatly simplified, but we are still working in getting it simpler, specially in command handling. - Since the device does not report the MAC address until the firmware is loaded, we use a fake multicast mac address for the device until the first time an interface is brought up. Thanks to Johannes Berg for his help with this issue. - The driver was developed on wireless-testing branch and compiled fine on olpc-2.6 but faced other problems (display, touchpad) that prevented us testing it on the xo. Waiting for olpc-2.6 master to stabilize after it merged with 2.6.26. Please send all feedback to this list cc'ing luisca or javier AT cozybit.com Cheers, The friendly folks at cozybit -- Javier Cardona cozybit Inc. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
