2009/6/9 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>: > This will cause problems for power-saving clients, as the ZD1211 chip > has no multicast buffering feature, something that must be done in > hardware even for softmac cards. (Possibly this can be worked around > in the firmware, but so far, no firmware source code has been released > for the ZD1211/AR2524, only for the ZD1221/AR9170.) Can you elaborate a bit on that - e.g. reference to specific specs, or dicussions archived elsewhere? This has been mentioned a few times - I am just a bit curious. Granted that: (1) Zydas zd1211 is cheap (I know how much I paid for it - I bought it mostly for its price when I knew nothing about wireless devices and their differences) and is expected to be minimal hardware-wise; (2) having worked on the vendor driver, ported it forward to current kernels and fixes a couple of old and new bugs on the way, the quality/maintainability of the code isn't anywhere close to that of any active open-source projects with more than say, 5 active developers; (3) there are still known bugs - it certainly does *not* work correctly on 64-bit host, and not likely to work on non-[32-bit-intel] hosts; and some of its 'if KERNEL_VERSION()' defines are plain wrong... But I have been using vendor driver 3.0 for a few weeks in AP mode and I am as happy with it as I could be, I think; I have suspended//resumed clients. It works adequately. I'd like the rw driver to support AP mode eventually (although I have been told in no uncertain terms it is not going to happen; maybe only firmware change). Just for curiosity I might have a crack at the 64-bit host problem, but I'd like not to spend more effort on the vendor driver. -- 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
