[Prism54-devel] [PATCH] prism54 snapshot fix for 2.6.11 & IRQ line too busy

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 16:14, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> The patch you provided does fix the compile errors but I'm still waiting
> to hear from netdev on how we should deal with pci_dma_sync_single for
> 2.4 (nasty ifdef, inline routine, or just use non-single dma routine).

Ok. :-)

> This should be no bug although I should fix the message and mention that
> you most likely have a softmac card which is not supported. 3com started
> selling the same card model with the same PCI ID and even with the same
> FCC ID but with a different chipset. I've purchased a card from 3com to
> confirm this and its true. Anyone know if this is legal? I'm looking
> into it and haven't yet found info to tell me whether this is or not.

IANAL, but it's probably a good idea to add something along the lines of a 

=== BIG FAT WARNING === 
New cards are unlikely to work because of 3Com fooling their customers, so 
don't buy this hardware!

to the website then. Otherwise it states that chances are ~90% that it just 
works (tm), which does not hold true for newer cards. Ow, and yes, 3Com 
pisses me off with that, as you might already have guessed. Rather than being 
really glad that someone puts a lot of work in getting their hardware 
supported, they show little to no respect to both, customers and driver 
developers lying about the hardware they're selling. (In the meantime, 
ndiswrapper lets me use the card, but that's clearly not my favorite 
solution.)

Does anyone have a proper email address or telephone number to ask 3Com for 
support? 

> Basically -- you just have a softmac card. A similar patch will be
> commmitted but later after netdev review on how to deal with 2.4
> backporting.

Am I right guessing that we need 3Com to provide a working firmware, or even 
more specs? I'm not a 100% sure of what it takes to get native support for my 
card, or to be able to implement it.

Oh well, many thanks for your efforts,

sebas
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