Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4778 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751491AbYHTTcz (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:32:55 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:28:12 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: kilroyd@googlemail.com Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, proski@gnu.org, orinoco-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, David Kilroy Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] orinoco: WPA for Agere based cards Message-ID: <20080820192812.GA1746@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080820_213301_414483_78879B14) References: <1217672073-7094-1-git-send-email-kilroyd@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1217672073-7094-1-git-send-email-kilroyd@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? > 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? John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com