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

2006-11-16 Thread Nick Kossifidis
Just in case you want to experiment, i have a working port of ar5k that works on madwifi-old before the BSD - HEAD merge... well i'm no good programmer (yet), i did what i could (i'm sure those define macros are nasty for most people :P) and hope that helps... you can git clone from the

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

2006-11-16 Thread Dan Williams
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:39 -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello! On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:21 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: Now that it seems to be ok to use these openbsd sources, should I port them to my driver

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 Ben Greear
Michael Buesch wrote: Yeah, ok. I'll look what I can do. First I'll have to read the code. and understand it. DMA stuff seems to be really obfuscated though dozens of callbacks, heh. :) I'd certainly like to see solid Atheros chipset support in mainline. If you need any hardware or other

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

2006-11-15 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello! On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:21 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: Now that it seems to be ok to use these openbsd sources, should I port them to my driver framework? I looked over the ar5k code and, well, I don't like it. ;)

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

2006-11-15 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:39, Pavel Roskin wrote: Hello! On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:21 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:42:14PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: Now that it seems to be ok to use these openbsd sources, should I port them to my driver

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 :)