Hi all, I just wanted to mention that I have updated the ACX driver's wiki in order to at least keep up with the current state of things regarding the driver and the kernel. I've rearranged the contents and added some information to the main page at http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page. In case there are any active or inactive developers reading this, please also have a look at the new http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page#Development and http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/History sections (the latter one being still pretty much under construction), and feel free to comment, correct or add to the information shown there. Regarding the current state of the driver, from what I could gather from the mailing list posts scattered through netdev, acx100-devel and acx-users and probably other places, there are three current versions of the driver: * "Plain" driver, which uses a homegrown wireless stack and does not support WPA. The last release (0.3.36) [1] was made for this flavour of the driver, which is the one shipped with distributions such as Ubuntu. Andreas Mohr said that after this release he'd concentrate on the softmac version. * Softmac driver, which uses the in-kernel ieee80211softmac layer for the common wireless functions. The code for this driver has been in the wireless-2.6 tree (under tiacx) for some time, and if I understand it correctly includes the changes from the 0.3.35 version of the "plain" driver but not yet those of the 0.3.36 version. * Mac80211 driver, which uses the seemingly soon-to-be-included-in-kernel mac80211 stack, available on the wireless-dev tree (the stack, not the driver). This release is only available here [2] and needs some work before being included in wireless-dev, since it was released at the time when mac80211 was still called d80211. In any case, having had a quick look at the code, I believe that replacing the d80211.h header reference to mac80211.h and maybe refactoring some functions might be all what is needed for an initial compilation. Note that I haven't got any previous driver or kernel module development experience, so I might be wrong here. What would also be needed is to merge all changes from the softmac and plain drivers. I am writing this in the hope of getting some exposure and some interest in the driver for an eventual kernel inclusion. As far as I understand, there are only two active developers at the moment, so I guess any help would be appreciated. I think the natural course of action should be to first get the mac80211 driver in shape for inclusion in the wireless-dev tree and then continue development from there. I (and maybe someone else) would be willing to help on this, but might need some 'mentoring' from the developers, since as I mentioned I've got no previous experience with linux modules or 80211. I have started looking at the acx-d80211 code, but I cannot promise anything. Any comments will be greatly appreciated. Note: I'm CC'ing netdev and linux-wireless as well. I think linux-wireless should be more appropriate, but previous posts regarding the tiacx driver were sent to netdev. Kind regards, David. [1] Announcement: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20070101224549.GA21249%40rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de&forum_name=acx100-users [2] http://www.cmartin.tk/acx/acx-d80211-20060709.tar.bz2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
