question about ORINOCO code

Jean Tourrilhes jt at bougret.hpl.hp.com
Fri Feb 22 06:29:36 EST 2002


On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 02:18:36PM -0500, thomas chen wrote:
> 
> i have been playing with the AGERE ORINOCO card with my linux and
> i cannot seem to find the info i need
> 
> a. there is a version of wavelan driver (mwavelan_cs.o) 
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/moustafa/mwavelan/mwavelan.html
> 
> it has some nice features such as AP scanning... but it also does
> not work completely...  
> 
> i am attempting to merge that function into orinoco_cs which is 
> working ok for me, but lack the scaning capability
> 
> however, i cannot make head and tail out of most of the
> stuff... where can i find the register/chipset/tech spec for this
> card???
> 
> or better yet, has anyone done it???? or in the middle of doing
> it???
> 
> thanks
> 
> -- 
> 
> Thomas Chen

	You will find the scanning patches for orinoco here :
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html#newapi
	This will get integrated in the kernel and official driver at
some point.
	Regards,

	Jean




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