On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 06:52 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > >> I realize I am slightly pushing my luck, but I added this el-cheapo > >> 88W8338 -based "Compoint EVWL-GI-700S" USB stick's USB ID "0x1286, > >> 0x1fab" to libertas/usb8xxx.c and chanced my arm. > > > If it's 8338, it's certainly not gonna work with this driver. Did you > > add the USB ID yourself? > > Yes I do actually say in that rather obfuscated sentence above that I > added the USB ID and accepted I was pushing my luck doing so. But... > the driver took the bold step of calling itself usb8xxx... Yeah, I'm wondering whether we should change that... I don't know what the policy on changing driver names is though, but given that the driver isn't extensively used yet, we may be able to. Dan > > > Irregardless of my previous comment, the bug should get fixed of course. > > Right, that's why I reported it like this: > > >> Of course this can be due to the luck-pushing, but it seemed it might > >> also be a genuine problem with the error handling. > > One of the other cheapo cards I randomly got was a Libertas 88W8335 PC > Card, I assume I am SOL on that as well. > > -Andy - 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
