Search Linux Wireless

Re: [PATCH 00/19] orinoco: WPA for Agere based cards

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 11:14:14AM +0100, kilroyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> This patch series enables WPA on Agere based orinoco devices.
> 
> Patchset overview
> 1-2: General scanning updates
> 3-9: Agere firmware download to RAM
> 10-12: Update orinoco to work with new firmware
> 13-19: WPA functionality
> 
> This patchset is against wireless-testing (master-2008-07-16), is
> sparse clean (UP), and should be bisectable. It is almost checkpatch
> clean - the single warning looks like a false positive to me.

Are we satisfied w/ this patch series?  If so, could I ask Dave to
repost them as a single series (rather than having to randomly replace
some of them) in the middle?

> To use WPA, you will need an Agere firmware image. You can get the
> necessary file at
> <http://marc.info/?l=orinoco-devel&m=121078835610877>, just extract
> and rename orinoco.fw to agere_sta_fw.bin and place it in
> /lib/firmware (or distro equivalent). Alternatively you can try
> extract firmware from a Windows driver using the program in
> <http://marc.info/?l=orinoco-devel&m=120846933719051>.

Is the above documented anywhere other than this email thread?

John
-- 
John W. Linville
linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
--
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

[Index of Archives]     [Linux Host AP]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Linux Kernel]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux