Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57090 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751612AbZGYHqS (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:46:18 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1MUbxO-0006zY-A3 for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:46:14 +0000 Received: from cpc1-cmbg9-0-0-cust9.cmbg.cable.ntl.com ([82.16.96.10]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:46:14 +0000 Received: from jon.fairbairn by cpc1-cmbg9-0-0-cust9.cmbg.cable.ntl.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:46:14 +0000 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: Jon Fairbairn Subject: Re: PCI express card that does AP mode? (abit wlp-01?) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:46:03 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1247762215.4235.21.camel@mj> <1247775641.6841.16.camel@mj> <1248449030.21715.23.camel@mj> <1248449371.32151.23.camel@johannes.local> <1248450733.21715.26.camel@mj> <1248451197.32151.26.camel@johannes.local> <1248451440.21715.27.camel@mj> <1248451757.32151.27.camel@johannes.local> <1248452675.32151.31.camel@johannes.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Johannes Berg writes: > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 17:16 +0100, Jon Fairbairn wrote: >> (In the "asking for the moon on a stick" department, it would be handy >> to have a table somewhere with "supported features" and "form factor" >> dropdowns, so that I could have selected "AP" and "PCIe" and get the >> card I now have ;-) [...] > I'm starting to think we should remove all the numbers (pci vendor, > product, subvendor, subsystem) in favour of more interesting information > like that. That would be good -- I suspect that the number of people who understand the purpose of the ids is rather smaller than the number of people who just want wireless of some description (though the numeric stuff needs to be somewhere). > However, as far as AP is concerned, how about we just add a little help > text that explains that you should look on the Drivers page to see > whether it supports what you need, and then select by driver? We could > make the driver table better to allow filtering. That would be a help. Mind you, I'm now a satisfied customer hoping he won't have to look for AP information for a while... -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk