Re: HEAD 1.406: keyring, vpn, drivers

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 11:02 -0400, Bill Moss wrote:
> We have a laptop requirement at Clemson. We probably have about 4K users 
> with Cisco mini-cards (airo driver) and about 10K with Intel Pro 2200BG 
> (ipw2200 driver). Next, year we will begin to see Intel Pro 2915ABG 
> (ipw2200 driver) users. Several people including me have made 
> contributions to the ipw2200 driver to make sure that it is compatible 
> with NM. My frustration is that I have many Linux friends at Clemson 
> using the airo driver and it does not work well with NM. It needs work. 

Rest assured, this is something I and others will be looking at in the
near future.  We've got the same problems at Red Hat (as most people
have T41s with Cisco MPI450s), as have others I've talked to.

> I would be interested to know which drivers and cards besides 
> ipw2200/Intel Pro 2200BG are working well with NM. Is the Intel Pro 
> 2915ABG is working with HEAD 1.406 especially the new 'Wireless Network 
> Discovery' feature.

I've found Prism54 (NOT softmac v3 cards) to work fairly well, and older
Atmel-based cards also work well.  Atheros/madwifi cards seem to do OK
too, and come in CardBus and MiniPCI varieties.

Dan