Linux PCMCIA WaveLan Driver
I have taken over the maintainance of these drivers, formerly
maintained by Jean Tourrilhes. He has
a web
page with lots of information about this driver.
As of pcmcia-cs-3.0.6, my latest patches to the driver have not been
integrated. The current patch adds roaming support which can be
enabled/disabled on the fly. Information on how to download/install
the patch is here. The roaming support is
based upon two patches.
- The first was written by Joe Finney from Lancaster University. He
has a web
page with information about his work on the driver.
- The
second patch was written by Josephy O'Sullivan. This increases the
performance while roaming. He also has a web page.
Here's a list of notes/erratas/todos compiled from various webpages
- Compiling a 2.1.X kernel with Wireless Extensions is tricky, because the CONFIG_NET_RADIO option has moved.
- Bob Gray found that if you place a PCMCIA card in an Access
Point after having changed the setting with the driver, we really
need to set correctly the PSA CRC. Patch is there, or here.
- Some Pcmcia cards behave very strangely: they claim to have sent
the packet without CRC instead of with it. Previously Jean was
treating that as an error, leading to a excessive number of reset of
the card. Derrick J Brashear sent Jean this
patch to treat it as a normal case, which dramatically decreases
the number of reset in this case...
- John Ruttenberg claims that to compile iwconfig under a recent
kernel, it can't find __u32. So, a quick (and ugly) fix is to go
in iwconfig and:
- add "#include ~/usr/src/linux/include/asm-i386/types.h"
- Some people have complained that it's currently impossible to find
the version of net tools required to compile iwspy. Jean's
managed to find one on his hard drive: net-tools-1.2.0. Jean doesn't
guarantee that it will do anything usefull, especially under
modern distributions (like the ones using glibc).
- The driver should do Domain ID checking.
- The driver should implement the official Roaming Protocol instead of the current method.
- The roaming code needs to be reimplemented on a lower level.
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Last modified: Wed Feb 17 09:25:34 EST 1999