Star New Linux WLAN Subsystem Integrated Into 'mm' Kernel Tree
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 3rd Mar 2007 21:47 UTC
Linux "Almost a year ago the Linux WLAN developers announced the switch to a new WLAN subsystem. Today the new system finally found its way into the mm kernel tree of Andrew Morton. In May and April 2006 it became clear that the devicescape WLAN stack will be the future base for the Linux WLAN drivers. The aim was to overcome the current situation of having several different subsystems for different drivers and to create a common, well documented subsystem. The new stack will feature a reworked driver for Broadcom bcm43xx drivers as well as a Ralink rt2x00 driver. And, as already mentioned, Intel's ipw3945 driver will be implemented without the need for a proprietary deamon."
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RE: sweet!
by drewunwired on Sat 3rd Mar 2007 23:32 UTC in reply to "sweet!"
drewunwired
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2005-07-06

I had the same result, only with Gentoo, on the rt2500 driver situation. Good to see some progress being made in that department.

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RE[2]: sweet!
by Gone fishing on Sun 4th Mar 2007 09:42 in reply to "RE: sweet!"
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2006-02-22

I hope it wouldn't be a wind up to say I'm using an rt2500 wireless card in Ubuntu and it just worked, even the GUI tools, same for Kubuntu.

This is, however, great news.

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RE[3]: sweet!
by drewunwired on Tue 6th Mar 2007 14:49 in reply to "RE[2]: sweet!"
drewunwired Member since:
2005-07-06

You're using the rt2500 driver, not the new rt2x00 driver, right?

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