Hi On Thursday 03 September 2009, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi Greg, [...] > > - at76_usb wireless driver. Again, no one working on it, it > > will be dropped in .33. > > There's at76c...something...-usb now, with a situation similar to the > ar9170/otus one. [...] at76c50x-usb, the mac80211 port of at76_usb, has been merged mainline in 2.6.30, it works well on two at76c503a devices for me. Performance and features are comparable (there were WPA patches[1] around, CCMP for at76c505 devices only, but due to stability issues with the newer firmware, they weren't merged in staging or at76c50x-usb); both drivers sport an identical device coverage. The 802.11b chipsets themselves are no longer in production, but were rather common (also in handhelds) around 6-9 years ago. In their current state, at76_usb and at76c50x-usb are restricted to WEP64/ 128 or unencrypted networks and work equally well (at76c50x-usb without the strange quirks that happen with at76_usb). AT76C503A specification summary: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/1949S.PDF AT76C505 specification summary: http://www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/2364s.pdf [1] Original WPA patches: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/at76c503a-develop/2008-May/000240.html Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
