[Prism54-devel] Prism54 development update

[Rogelio Serrano]

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> Item 6 - add USB support
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> There's been a lot of work here lately. This is great! We will only be
> able to support Prism Frisbee chipsets though. This is a difficult task
> as we have no docs and AFAICT there is not even a windows driver out
> there that uses the old firmware so we'd be the first. Jean and Feyd
> have been following up on this.
> 
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> 
> As far as support for the new chipsets goes -- sorry -- we won't be able
> to support it as I don't think even Conexant has a final well tested
> linux source base ready for 2.6. And even if we are given a source base
> there is nothing we can do to get around the need for the closed-source
> softmac libs that it relies on. As much as I'd like to support it, I
> don't want to get a headache to support something I cannot modify so I
> won't be willing to support a half-opened driver as the atheros driver.
> 
> In regards to our talks with Conexant for the firmware:
> 
> They have given us a click-through license for the firmware. It seems
> its final -- nothing we can do about it. I'll soon fwd it for comment.
> 
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> 
> Please note that AFAICT only a few places are now selling Prism FullMAC
> chipsets so watch out what you buy. Please make sure you check the FCC
> ID first and make sure it matches the FCC ID listed our our supported
> cards page (coming soon). For those of you out of the US -- anyone have
> any idea what you can use to track the specific model?
> 
> It'd be nice if we had a 100% reliable vendor that sells FullMAC
> chipset-carsd. Anyone know of one? If you are a vendor please let me
> know and I will list you on our page. We linux users want these cards
> and we will buy them from you ;)
> 
>         Luis
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The dlink dwl-g120 is not going to be supported then.


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