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Re: dlink 650+ on an ibook2.2



On Monday 03 April 2006 18:54, Brad Boyer wrote:
> Well, I didn't look hard enough when I answered your question before. I
> didn't realize there were two different cards with similar names. The
> one I thought you had uses a normal chipset supported by the hermes
> driver and might have worked with the normal airport driver. However,
> since the card you have uses this acx100 driver instead, there would
> definitely be more work to do. It looks like this driver you are
> trying to use already supports multiple underlying interfaces, so it
> might be possible to change it to know about the custom Apple slot
> interface like the airport driver. I don't know if you've done any
> kernel programming, but if you want to work on the code, I would
> suggest looking at drivers/net/wireless/airport.c to see how it wraps
> the hermes/orinoco driver to interface with the slot.

i don't have any experience in kernel programming, maybe i'll try this summer. 
until then the monitor mode with the airport will sucks.

thanks :)



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