From: Carlos M. <car...@gm...> - 2005-06-28 14:56:31
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On 28/06/05, Denis Vlasenko <vd...@il...> wrote: > Hi Andreas, folks, >=20 > I prepared a little draft email to lkml and other relevant folks. > It is below. Please comment. >=20 > Especially, is this 100.00% true? >=20 > >Texas Instruments did not take part in development of this driver > >in any way, shape or form. >=20 > I don't want to lie :) >=20 > I won't sent such mail to anywhere outside acx team before I get > your approval. (I think it will be Andreas duty/privilege to send it) >=20 > DRAFT * DRAFT * DRAFT * DRAFT * DRAFT * DRAFT * DRAFT * DRAFT * DRAFT >=20 > We'd like to present ACX, a driver for 802.11b/g > wireless cards and USB devices based on what's the difference between a wireless card and an USB device? ITYM for PCI, CardBus and USB wireless cards/devices/stuff ;). > Texas Instruments acx100 and acx111 chipsets. They have other names as well. I think you can find them in README. It may be good to add them. >=20 > People reported success in using this driver with: >=20 > acx100: > dlink_dwl650+ > smc_2435w Add dlink_dwl120+ (USB) to the list. It works also (or at least it did some releases back) Maybe you could add wether they are CardBus, PCI or USB. > Driver creates a wlanN (pseudo-)ethernet device > which can be configured with standard tools > (iwconfig and friends, ifconfig, ip, etc). Every wi-fi driver does this AFAIK, but feel free. > Driver needs a firmware file(s) to operate. >=20 > Firmware files are not covered by GPL and are not distributed > with this driver for legal reasons, but it's semi-trivial to > find them on Web in Windows drivers on the hardware vendor sites. Didn't D-Link give us permission to distribute the firmware for non-commercial purposes? They could be uploaded to SourceForge, and we could tell people to run a script to download them, or something. --=20 Carlos Mart=EDn http://www.cmartin.tk http://rpgscript.berlios.de Nowadays everyting has infrared and wireless. If it's big enough, it gets Gigabit and a DVD burner. |