[Prism54-devel] SoftMAC news

[Jean-Baptiste Note]

Dear list,

I've managed to get USB devices version2 to work. Well, the one I have
(thanks to Nicolas Lhommet. This device was more cumbersome
mgmt-frame-wise than the ones i got logs of, but helped me to understand
some more fields in the frequency change packets).

The driver now supports three generations of devices,

- net2280 + 3880
- net2280 + 3886
- 3887

I sporadically get some problems with my device net2280 + 3880, which
needs to be reset with ndiswrapper before working again... I have the
data but lack the time to investigate the problem (maybe my device is
getting flakey, too), can anybody with this kind of device test the
driver at tell me how it fares ?

Testers for 3887 are welcome too ! 

There are a ton of things to implement (for instance, WEP, which should
be fairly easy, and *very* welcome) / protocol reverse engeneering to be
done and precised (for instance, watermarking the USB packets before
handing them to the driver in ndiswrapper to be sure about the
meaningfull packet fields) / bugs to fix (the driver behaves strangely
if you disconnect the device before ifconfiguring it down).

feel free to ask if you got spare time :)

Tomorrow i'll start hooking into the PCI code.

Joyeuses Pâques ! (don't know what the translation to english is...)

JB
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