[Prism54-users] Re: SMC2835w v3 installation Problem

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 04:23:52PM +0200, Sven K??hler wrote:
> > this card is a newmac one, v2 and v1 would work with the old
> > prism54-driver. you have to wait a while for a driver supporting this
> > card, in the meantime you can use ndiswrapper which is known to work. It
> > shouldn't take too long for a driver supporting it so watch the ml and
> > have a bit of time ;)
> 
> it shouldn't take too long? I'm curious how far the development for
> softmac-cards is. I also hearded, that Conexant is (or will)
> "ofiicially" supporting this project.
> 
> When can we expect softmac support? 1 month, 2 month? half a year? And
> will conexant really support the prism54-project?
> 
> I don't want to push for softmac support, but i don't understand the
> several hints on the devel-list, and just want to askm, what we can
> expect in worse/best-case.

Conexant has not stepped in to help our team advance a SoftMAC driver
and I doubt they will. Jean has been working on this (USB first). He's
your saviour.

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