Re: Moving to 2.6 and wondering about wireless
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 06:17:09PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
>> Going to 2.6 usually means going to ALSA sound, which means that
>> sound stops working until you can figure out how to get it going
>> again. ALSA drivers are significantly different from OSS drivers, I
>> have a Thinkpad 600E that has no sound because I haven't yet got ALSA
>> to work with it's audio device...
>
> Yes, I tried ALSA some time back and failed. I just don't really "get
> it" -- in I don't understand how the parts are suppose to fit
> together. I'm not so sure I understand how OSS works, either!
How odd. Personally, I turned on the ALSA options for my card, the OSS
emulation options, then installed the ALSO output plugin for xine and
xmms.
At that point it just worked(tm).
>> As for wireless, my Wireless cardbus card works fine with 2.6.
>
> So the question I have is do I still need to install separate wlan-ng
> drivers? Or are the prism drivers built into the 2.6 kernel?
There are drivers for prism 2 and 2.5 hardware in the kernel, but
neither the HostAP or wlan-ng drivers have been merged. So, I had the
mini-PCI wireless working with the kernel prism driver, but patched in
HostAP later for added features.
Daniel
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