Re: [zd1211-devs] zd1211 vendor driver on 2.6.35.10

[Hin-Tak L. <hin...@ya...>]

Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:28:19 +0000 (GMT) Hin-Tak Leung
> <ht...@us...> wrote:
> 
>> I use it mainly for the AP mode, on an old machine that has just been
>> resurrected after over a year, so the last it worked was on 2.6.31.x .
>> There are a couple of old and new quirks: a dozen of 'We are trapped in
>> zd_SigProcess, Going to release all,id=3,block=1' is new to 2.6.35.x, but
>> the driver has always needed if down/up and or iwlist scan before a client
>> station can connect, and that's still the case; and under extended use (a
>> few days, and/or a few GB traffic) it can still bring the AP machine down.
>> 
>> I see some great person has just had a whole bunch of patches committed to
>> wireless-testing in the last few months for enabling AP mode for the
>> in-kernel zd1211rw driver... so 2.6.39(?) or thereabout it would be
>> generally available...so the use of the vendor driver for AP mode would
>> soon not be needed any more. I'd probably give the compat-wireless a try
>> soon enough.
> 
> There is a patch at http://ankalagon.ru/notes/patch-na-zd1211rw which adds AP
> mode in a very simple way, and it actually works! I had to modify the first
> hunk slightly for kernel 2.6.38, modified patch below:

It looks like a non-standard(ugly?) hack though, and not likely to work with 
standard linux AP-setup instruction... in any case, the "official" change has 
already happened - once something is in the wireless-testing branch of the 
kernel, it is just a matter of time before it reaches Linus himself. The process 
usually takes a few months between a change appearing in wireless testing to it 
  appearing in the official release.