On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Kassandra Drowner <kassandra.drow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm using a AVM Fritz Wlan Stick of the first generation. This USB device > has the TNETW1450 by Texas Instruments. > According to the ubuntu-wikipage this is one device that needs to be handled > with ndiswrapper & the windows driver , because no kernel driver is > available. > > I searched around and came across http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ . This > driver isnt merged obviously because of legal problems with the developing > process. > > In the LWN Article "Who wrote 2.6.37" ( http://lwn.net/Articles/420658/ ) > i've seen the chipset manufacturer Texas instruments being ranked quite high > up. > > Are there plans to get official support for the chipsets > ACX100/ACX111/TNETW1450 in the mainline tree one day, now that the > manufacturer has started to work on linux-support? Will the legal issues be > dealt with, so the sf-project can be included and the driver being worked on > by more people than just 2 or 3 ? > > > Kassandra Drowner > JFYI: OpenWRT is maintaining acx-mac80211 (could not test on my Speedport-W701/AR7-router-plattform yet, using freetz). - Sedat - [1] https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/acx-mac80211 [2] http://acx100.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=acx100/acx-mac80211;a=summary -- 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
