Hi. > At least, this way we have a chance to get USB working as well (See > http://madwifi.org/ticket/33).
It's not the HAL that prevents MadWifi implementing USB support. Replacing the binary-only HAL with OpenHAL and/or dissolving the HAL functionality in the driver source does not get us any closer to a working support of USB sticks. Quoting Sam Leffler on that topic: === cut === The Atheros-based USB devices work rather differently from the cardbus/pci cards. In particular there is no hal; instead there's an onboard processor that runs the hal and implements a special protocol. This means you can reuse some of madwifi but you also (probably) need to redo the code some to break out different interfaces. It's not a simple project. === cut === see: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user/5380 > OpenBSD seems to have a working driver (if_uath.c) for these USB WLAN > sticks. Which, at least for some sticks, requires a not freely distributable binary firmware blob, by the way (see: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/cvs/2006-09/0233.html ). Nevertheless, it would be nice to have that driver ported to Linux. Bye, Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
