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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 15:50:04 +0100
From: Kassandra Drowner <kassandra.drow@googlemail.com>
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Subject: The future of ACX100/ACX111/TNETW1450 support in the kernel?
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I'm using a AVM Fritz Wlan Stick of the first generation. This USB 
device has the TNETW1450 by Texas Instruments.
According to the ubuntu-wikipage this is one device that needs to be 
handled with ndiswrapper & the windows driver , because no kernel driver 
is available.

I searched around and came across http://acx100.sourceforge.net/ . This 
driver isnt merged obviously because of legal problems with the 
developing process.

In the LWN Article "Who wrote 2.6.37" ( http://lwn.net/Articles/420658/ 
) i've seen the chipset manufacturer Texas instruments being ranked 
quite high up.

Are there plans to get official support for the chipsets 
ACX100/ACX111/TNETW1450 in the mainline tree one day, now that the 
manufacturer has started to work on linux-support? Will the legal issues 
be dealt with, so the sf-project can be included and the driver being 
worked on by more people than just 2 or 3 ?


Kassandra Drowner