[gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 kernel and WiFi

[gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 kernel and WiFi

[Mark Haney]

Okay, here's just a general question I'd like to get some info (or at
least opinions) on. I've been reading up on the changes to the latest
stable kernel (2.6.22) and the rewrite of the WiFi driver architecture.
 One of the things I noticed was that my chipset (Broadcom) has drivers
in the upstream kernel, but wasn't included in the rewrite and that only
a handful of drivers we stable enough for the .22 kernel.  My question
is this, how does the new kernel affect the existing drivers?  Ie, will
I stil be able to use the .22 kernel with my broadcom/ndiswrapper
combination until a new driver from upstream is stable?

Does anyone know?

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 kernel and WiFi

[Florian Philipp]

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Am Montag 16 Juli 2007 14:31 schrieb Mark Haney:
> Okay, here's just a general question I'd like to get some info (or at
> least opinions) on. I've been reading up on the changes to the latest
> stable kernel (2.6.22) and the rewrite of the WiFi driver architecture.
>  One of the things I noticed was that my chipset (Broadcom) has drivers
> in the upstream kernel, but wasn't included in the rewrite and that only
> a handful of drivers we stable enough for the .22 kernel.  My question
> is this, how does the new kernel affect the existing drivers?  Ie, will
> I stil be able to use the .22 kernel with my broadcom/ndiswrapper
> combination until a new driver from upstream is stable?
>
> Does anyone know?
>
> --
> Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
>
>
> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
> (828) 350-2415
>
> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support

As far as I know there is not a single driver based on the new interface, yet.
Therefore the old interface is still included and your drivers should work.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 kernel and WiFi

[Mark Haney]

Florian Philipp wrote:

>> --
>> Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
>>
>>
>> Mark Haney
>> Sr. Systems Administrator
>> ERC Broadband
>> (828) 350-2415
>>
>> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
> 
> As far as I know there is not a single driver based on the new interface, yet.
> Therefore the old interface is still included and your drivers should work.


From
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_22#head-1498b990e997cc0e95dbfa9047e7ebe8d84847cc

There are quite a lot of new and ported drivers that are already using
the new stack which have not been merged in this release, but will get
merged in future releases, like the RT2x00 drivers, the bcm43xx driver,
zd1211rw, adm8211, rtl818x, Intel iwlwifi (ipw3945 and ipw4965).
Distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora already are using them.

Just to clarify.


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.22 kernel and WiFi

[Wil Reichert]

On 7/16/07, Florian Philipp <f.philipp@addcom.de> wrote:
> Am Montag 16 Juli 2007 14:31 schrieb Mark Haney:
> > Okay, here's just a general question I'd like to get some info (or at
> > least opinions) on. I've been reading up on the changes to the latest
> > stable kernel (2.6.22) and the rewrite of the WiFi driver architecture.
> >  One of the things I noticed was that my chipset (Broadcom) has drivers
> > in the upstream kernel, but wasn't included in the rewrite and that only
> > a handful of drivers we stable enough for the .22 kernel.  My question
> > is this, how does the new kernel affect the existing drivers?  Ie, will
> > I stil be able to use the .22 kernel with my broadcom/ndiswrapper
> > combination until a new driver from upstream is stable?
> >
> > Does anyone know?
> >
> > --
> > Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem!
> >
> >
> > Mark Haney
> > Sr. Systems Administrator
> > ERC Broadband
> > (828) 350-2415
> >
> > Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
>
> As far as I know there is not a single driver based on the new interface, yet.
> Therefore the old interface is still included and your drivers should work.

I've got a orinoco card which I believe is using the new mac80211 code
- its the only wireless stack I'm compiling into the kernel.
Whatever, I'm glad they decided to standardize this.

Wil
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