Return-path: Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.238]:50666 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752374AbYHTUt4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:49:56 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id k40so627763rvb.1 for ; Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:49:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48AC836B.2020207@gmail.com> (sfid-20080820_225002_112959_7EFB2137) Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:49:47 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "John W. Linville" CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, proski@gnu.org, orinoco-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] orinoco: WPA for Agere based cards References: <1217672073-7094-1-git-send-email-kilroyd@gmail.com> <20080820192812.GA1746@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20080820192812.GA1746@tuxdriver.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed From: Dave Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: John W. Linville wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 11:14:14AM +0100, kilroyd@googlemail.com wrote: >> This patch series enables WPA on Agere based orinoco devices. >> >> Patchset overview >> 1-2: General scanning updates >> 3-9: Agere firmware download to RAM >> 10-12: Update orinoco to work with new firmware >> 13-19: WPA functionality >> >> This patchset is against wireless-testing (master-2008-07-16), is >> sparse clean (UP), and should be bisectable. It is almost checkpatch >> clean - the single warning looks like a false positive to me. > > Are we satisfied w/ this patch series? If so, could I ask Dave to > repost them as a single series (rather than having to randomly replace > some of them) in the middle? I believe I have addressed all the issues that I can. The main outstanding one is why Pavel was seeing issues on his 64 bit kernel/64 bit userspace setup. I will repost the full series shortly. >> To use WPA, you will need an Agere firmware image. You can get the >> necessary file at >> , just extract >> and rename orinoco.fw to agere_sta_fw.bin and place it in >> /lib/firmware (or distro equivalent). Alternatively you can try >> extract firmware from a Windows driver using the program in >> . > > Is the above documented anywhere other than this email thread? At the moment this is only documented in email threads (on orinoco-devel) - I lack access to any web/file hosting to put something more permanent up. This obviously ought to be corrected. Regards, Dave.