[Prism54-devel] Re: SoftMAC news

[Maximilian Engelhardt]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 17:01 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote:
> > It seems PCI protocol and USB protocol are very close, so you card should
> > be usefull at some point in time in a not-so-distant future. But we have
> > no datasheet, the reverse engeneering is done entirely by hand... This
> > means the driver will progress, but slowly...
> 
> reverse engeneering? that sounds awful. I hate companies, refusing to
> publish specs for driver-programming.
> 
> But wait, on www.prism54.org, it says:
> 
> Conexant is working on providing our development team with
> specifications, a new source base and a firmware license. Native Linux
> driver support for Prism Javelin / Xbow chipset based cards may soon be
> added because of this.
> 
> Has Conexant finally made up its mind? Are there any hints, when
> Conexant will finally help the prism54 project? I'm curious to know,
> when the "reverse engeneering hell" will end.

This is outdated. AFAIK Conexant hast stopped supported this project and
doesn't give any information for the softmac chip. Jean-Baptiste Note is
working on reverse engeneering these chips. There is already a limited
but working driver for USB devices and hopefully a PCI driver will be
added soon. His site can be found here:
http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/

Maxi
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