Dingo project: acx(4)
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Sun Jul 24 02:50:31 GMT 2005
Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm not sure this is the right list to send this, but this is a kind of
> fallback.
>
> While reading the FreeBSD status report, the Dingo part, I decided to
> have a look at Dingo's goals to freshen up my memory. I saw that it
> is planned to import the pff(4) driver.
>
> I would like to point to developpers that Darron Broad coded the acx(4)
> driver for the chip which has the same name. The driver is an
> interpretation of the corresponding Linux driver. It works for most
> card for what I heard, except for those based on ACX111.
>
> I would like to know if it is an option to include his driver in the
> source tree given that it's working well (the lastest version support
> the new 80211 framework), and that it would be a pity if this driver
> was forgotten and never really exploited, IMHO.
>
> http://wlan.kewl.org/
I'd like to see support for this in the tree too but it needs a
committer to deal with support. We already have a number of drivers in
the tree that are getting no support--despite having a committer
supposedly watching over them.
Sam
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