On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 22:41 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:The incentive has already worked for MadWifi, which has landed in the wireless-2.6 repository under the name "ath5k". Still, there is a lot of work to do, and some features won't appear in the kernel driver soon, partly because they rely on the chipset features that still need to be reverse engineered. In the meantime, somebody has to maintain the old madwifi and release fixed for security and kernel compatibility. Also, there are drivers that are just to unwieldy to be shaped into something resembling a typical Linux driver. linux-wlan-ng is such project. No matter what the incentive, it won't go to the kernel. Maybe somebody will write a clean driver for Prism USB devices one day, but it didn't happen so far. Finally, there is a little at76_usb driver, which supports quite old 802.11b devices. It's in wireless-2.6 as well, but I simply cannot expect users to test it from there. And if I make a standalone release, I'd rather not make another one when 2.6.24 comes out. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -
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