Re: joy. AirPort Extreme
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:01:56PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yesterday, the free driver for the first time received data. It was
> obviously a version I had hacked up, but we spec'ed the remaining bits
> now. It only worked in PIO mode, but the b44 driver has pretty much the
> same DMA engine. Any kind of encryption isn't handled yet unless you
> want to do it in software (we know something is handled in hardware, but
> not how much and what really).
>
> However, it is working at least somewhat. I don't know even if all data
> rates work etc. because I have no good testing equipment. But basic
> functionality is there. Just so you know.
>
> Now, don't check out the svn now and complain if nothing works. That's
> expected. Remember we're working on two groups. But if you were going to
> buy an external adapter now, you might want to wait :)
>
> I suppose it'll still be a few weeks until there's a driver that can
> associate. And AP or ad-hoc mode will take much longer yet since we
> still need to figure out what to do there.
Kudos to both groups for the great work you did !
I will be very happy to try crashing my machine with the test driver as
soon as tomorrow, if the useless apple center i gave my machine to
repair are done with hijacking it :)
ciao, piem
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