The ipw3945 driver has been out for a while and is not yet upstream.
It requires a binary only daemon to work, but I still see no reason not
to merge it.
Many wlan drivers require binary firmware anyway, so I don't see a
reason not to merge it.
I also have read this: http://lwn.net/Articles/205988/ (and the old
thread on lkml/netdev)
Can this be used to make the driver work without the daemon?
It seems that the development of the driver has stopped since july,
maybe because it never will get merged and intel decided to stop working
on it?
If this is true it could mean that feature intel wlan chips will end up
with no linux drivers :(
dragoran wrote:
...
> It seems that the development of the driver has stopped since july,
> maybe because it never will get merged and intel decided to stop working
> on it?
Development hasn't stopped, I'm just a slacker ;). I was away from work
for a while, and on return I was sucked into various issues that have
now (hopefully) all been resolved (or routed to /dev/null).
We have several patches that have backed up in our bug database
(http://bughost.org/cover/ and click on 'tested patches') that I'll be
pushing to our GIT tree as well as releasing a new snapshot to SF.
We've also been working on some new code internally we're putting
through some testing before we push out. Expect some good things in the
coming weeks.
> If this is true it could mean that feature intel wlan chips will end up
> with no linux drivers :(
We do what we can internally to ensure that is never the case.
James
James Ketrenos wrote:
> dragoran wrote:
> ...
>
>> It seems that the development of the driver has stopped since july,
>> maybe because it never will get merged and intel decided to stop working
>> on it?
>>
>
> Development hasn't stopped, I'm just a slacker ;). I was away from work
> for a while, and on return I was sucked into various issues that have
> now (hopefully) all been resolved (or routed to /dev/null).
>
> We have several patches that have backed up in our bug database
> (http://bughost.org/cover/ and click on 'tested patches') that I'll be
> pushing to our GIT tree as well as releasing a new snapshot to SF.
>
> We've also been working on some new code internally we're putting
> through some testing before we push out. Expect some good things in the
> coming weeks.
>
>
ok thx for the info :)
>> If this is true it could mean that feature intel wlan chips will end up
>> with no linux drivers :(
>>
>
> We do what we can internally to ensure that is never the case.
>
>
:)
> James
>
>