Re: About at76c50XX based devices.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 18:03 +0400, Maxim Grechkin wrote:
> Why are at76c50xx based devices are unsupported? There is good driver
> for it (at76c503a.berlios.de). The driver mentioned on wiki page (from
> sf.net) is bad, but from berlios is better.

I wasn't aware of this driver, actually.

Some random notes about it:

1) it's got a private ioctl() for passive vs. active scanning; this is
now a WE standardized thing and should be integrated into the
SIOCSIWSCAN handler in WE >= 20

2) at76c503_iw_handler_set_wap() doesn't handle the OFF case (where AP
BSSID is 00:00:00:00:00:00); should be done pretty much like the ANY
case which this function already handles

3) at76c503_iw_handler_set_essid() handles the old WE case for SSID
being NULL terminated and length incremented by 1; but doesn't handle
new case.  If the driver is compiled to WE >= 21, the client-passed SSID
length is 100% correct, even if there is a \0 at the end.

All in all, it looks pretty good; and I don't see any specific issues
that NM would dislike.  Have you been able to get it to work with NM?

Dan