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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:25:15 +0100
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Subject: Re: zd1211rw on ppc (iBook G4)
From: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
To: "Leonardo H. Souza Hamada" <leonardo.hamada@ufra.edu.br>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Leonardo H. Souza
Hamada<leonardo.hamada@ufra.edu.br> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> On linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r3, the zd1211rw driver was working as eth1.
>
> This is a big-endian machine.
>
> On 2.6.30-gentoo-r5, 'ifconfig -a' shows the relevant entries below:

> Likely is a issue similar reported previously:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124906700820860&w=2
>
> Quick peek at the source diffs between previous version reveals some
> changes.

Are you talking about a regression - i.e. it used to work *on the same
architecture*, but not any more? If that's the case you can probably
start with 2.6.24 and various compat-wireless on to narrow down which
changes break.  The post you referred to is different - vendor driver
vs rw driver.