Thank you for the link. But as I said, I had problems even with the compat-old version so that patching the old original kernel to support uw2453 seemed less of a hassle (in terms of getting it to work).
Also, it looks like that for the problems I mentioned there are already a number of smaller patches addressing it on the linux-wireless mailing list. I haven't taken a closer look but it might be that those patches have been applied to compat-wireless already and simply aren't included in the compat-old package. Sören > --- On Sat, 8/8/09, "Sören Wellhöfer" <soeren.wellhoe...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > Hi Hin-Tak, > > > > one of my chief problems was that I was not at all able to > > get compat-wireless to work with this rather ancient kernel > > version. The driver file zd_rf_uw2453.c added in the patch > > is indeed taken from a recent version of compat-wireless > > itself. > > Here it says there is a version of compat-wireless that went back to > 2.6.22, which should be sufficient for your purpose: > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download#Compat-wireless_release_types > > I think the compat-wireless-old package is slightly older than > compat-wireless (which is bleed-edge, 2.6.31/32+), but should take you up to > at least > about 2.6.28/2.6.29 equivalent, wireless-wise. > > > Also, I can't really see that the issues I've mentioned got > > fixed in compat-wireless either. I've seen many people still > > reporting problems with this now and then. > > I think you could separate the two types of changes, support of newer > UW2453 radio hardware, and fixes to problems, and send the latter, if they are > not in compat-wireless yet, to the linuxwireless mailing list. I can't > quite see at a first glance what problem the non-UW2453-related changes > addresses. (and there hasn't been much traffic on zd1211-devel for months, so > remind me...) > > > -- Sören Wellhöfer Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena / Specialised school for Math, Science, and Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
