SV: moving from wavelan2_cs to orinoco_cs

[David Gibson]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 10:15:32AM +0200, int10h wrote:
> Paul Wis?n <paul at busnet.se> ?rta:
> 
> > quick question ..
> > why are you changing driver ?
> 
> I want to use orinoco cards with desktop PCs equiped with 
> PCI bri bridges (Don't tell me to buy ISA bridges, cause 
> the machines aren't mine, they're the property of my 
> university.) and I've read a mail in a linux kernel 
> developement list, that the PCI bridges (with TI1410 chip) 
> are supported now (or atleast a patch exist for 2.4.5).

That shouldn't require changes to the orinoco driver.  Once the PCMCIA
subsystem supports the bridges properly the orinoco driver should just
work.

> The second cause is that I want to make performance test 
> (detect collosions (bad CRC frames)), want to extract 
> management frames and control the use of the usage of 
> RTS/CTS directly on a per frame basis. This is because I'm 
> working on an AODV implementation.

That's somewhat more complicated, and something I certainly want to
add to the driver.  There are other things ahead of it on the queue
though.  Be aware that although I suspect the orinoco cards are
capable of monitor mode, I have no idea how to activate it (no
firmware specs).

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