[Linuxtrent] FWD: linux-wlan-ng 0.2.1-final released (at long last)

Emanuele Olivetti <olivetti@xxxxxx> · Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:13:14 +0200

E' appena arrivata una nuova versione dei driver wlan-ng (per schede
wireless). Chi ha un ibook e il dongle usb dlink dwl-122 dovrebbe
rallegrarsene :) visto che c'e' il supporto per WPA.

Ciao,

Emanuele

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Yeah, I should have spit this out months ago, but fixes kept trickling 
in.  Having a public subversion repository also removed most of the 
pressure for continual new releases.  

To check out the development trunk, you can run this:

   svn co svn://svn.shaftnet.org/linux-wlan-ng/trunk linux-wlan-ng

A whole lot has changed since v0.2.0. 

The driver is stable, and fairly reliable, even in the USB case.  I
consider linux-wlan-ng to be in a comfortable maintainence phase now,
with few planned changes down the line -- anything major would require
massive code rewrites.  :) Meanwhile, it's getting harder and harder to
buy new prism2 devices, and most people have dumped them now in favor of
much faster (and generally, less quirky..) 802.11g clients.

My personal feature wish list:

 * WPA Support (via wpa_supplicant)
   - TKIP implementation (hardware can't speak TKIP)
   - WPA IE hookup via generic IE mechanism
 * Firmware plug/load happens via hotplug.
 * Wireless Extensions 
   - Clean up existing problems
   - New V18 stuff, including WPA support
   - Make it the default mode, perhaps, as client-side profile support 
     has finally become usable with the likes of NetworkManager

Changes since 0.2.1-pre26:
 - Added in-kernel devicetable for 2.6.13+ pcmcia 
 - Updates to bring prism2_cs into the newer 2.6 kernel APIs. 
 - Fixes in the hotplug invocation with WEXT (Pavel Roskin)
 - Experimentally try using usb_reset_device on 2.4 kernels too
 - use usb_reset_device() on 2.6 kernels (Andreas Schulte)
 - Included kludged 1.8.4 PCI/PCMCIA firmware (Pavel Roskin)
 - PCMCIA card Ident fixes to coexist with orinioco driver (Pavel Roskin)
 - Ignore unexpected ctlx responses. (Chris Rankin)
 - Fix an off-by-one in scan results.
 - Change some log priorities
 - [usb] Fix a memory leak (Chris Rankin * Eroc Koenders)
 - [usb] clean up the PDA Read function a bit. (Chris Rankin)
 - [usb] Don't overwrite current CTLX URB before we're done with it. 
   (Eric Koenders & Chris Rankin)
 - Fix a byte-order problem when parsing scan results (Eroc Koenders)
 - Added a mib item (lnxRSNAIE) to get/set the WPA/RSNA IE.
 - Applied a patch from Chris Rankin which should solve the hangs with 
   kernel preemption turned on.
 - Cleaned up some compile warnings with GCC 3.4.x
 - Add a background thread to fetch comms quality from hardware.
 - Fixed a series of bad memsets in prism2dl
 - Added id for Viewsonic USB widget (Ekin Meroglu)
 - Eliminate the extra frame copy in the usb rx path.
 - When issuing a start/join, set MACMODE to none as to disable 
   transmits through the hardware.
 - Get rid of the prism2_pci/plx 2.2.x compatibility code (Pavel Roskin)
 - Change default behaivor of top-level Makefile (Pavel Roskin)
 - Get rid of the #ifndef DECLARE_TASKLET cases; 2.4+ supports it.
 - Fetch the BSSID when we get an AP_CHANGE event
 - netif_carrier_off/netif_carrier_on at appropriate times
 - Hook up the dot11CurrentTxPowerLevel MIB in the prism2 code.
 - Add a default TMPDIR in case it isn't set.
 - Removed some 2.2.x cruft
 - CommsQuality now does the right thing with dBm values.
 - More makefile work from Pavel Roskin
 - A major USB patch from Chris Rankin.  This rewrites the 
   command-queueing code to something considerably more sane.
 - A few more Makefile tweaks
 - Further compile warning fixes on 64-bit targets (Pavel Roskin)
 - Fix prism2_cs on 64-bit targets (Pavel Roskin)
 - Fix the 2.4 build (whoops)

Enjoy, folks.  Many thanks to everyone who's sent in patches, especially 
Pavel Roskin and Chris Rankin.   You guys rock.

 - Solomon
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