Driver for wireless cards using Agere's HERMES II.5 chipset
which are identified with Manufacture ID: 0156,0004
The software is a modified version of wl_lkm_722_abg.tar.gz
- from the Agere Systems website, addapted for Ubuntu 9.04.
+ from the Agere Systems website, adapted for Ubuntu 9.04.
-First of all, the best thing would be that this driver becomes obsolte by
+First of all, the best thing would be that this driver becomes obsolete by
adding support for Hermes II and Hermes II.5 cards to the existing orinoco
driver. The orinoco driver currently only supports Hermes I based cards.
Since this will not happen by magic and has not happened until now this
TODO:
- verify against a Hermes II.5 card
- - verify with WPA encription (both with H2 and H2.5 cards)
+ - verify with WPA encryption (both with H2 and H2.5 cards)
- sometimes the card does not initialize correctly, retry mechanisms
are build in to catch most cases but not all
- once the driver runs it is very stable, but I have the impression
- some the crittical sections take to long
+ some the critical sections take to long
- the driver is split into a Hermes II and a Hermes II.5 part, it
would be nice to handle both with one module instead of two
- review by the wireless developer community
DONE:
- verified against a Hermes II card (Thomson Speedtouch 110 PCMCIA
card)
- - verified with WEP encription
+ - verified with WEP encryption
Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg
Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and Cc: Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@amsat.org>