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| 86f9150c | 1 | First of all, the best thing would be that this driver becomes obsolete by |
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2 | adding support for Hermes II and Hermes II.5 cards to the existing orinoco |
| 3 | driver. The orinoco driver currently only supports Hermes I based cards. | |
| 25985edc | 4 | Since this will not happen by magic and has not happened until now this |
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5 | driver provides a stop-gap solution for these type of cards. |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | Having said that, the following wishlist comes to mind to make the driver | |
| 8 | suitable as fully supported kernel driver. Feel free to expand/enhance the | |
| 9 | list. | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | TODO: | |
| 12 | - verify against a Hermes II.5 card | |
| 86f9150c | 13 | - verify with WPA encryption (both with H2 and H2.5 cards) |
| a6f95b6e | 14 | - sometimes the card does not initialize correctly, retry mechanisms |
| 86f9150c | 15 | are built in to catch most cases but not all |
| a6f95b6e | 16 | - once the driver runs it is very stable, but I have the impression |
| 86f9150c | 17 | that some of the critical sections take some time. |
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18 | - the driver is split into a Hermes II and a Hermes II.5 part, it |
| 19 | would be nice to handle both with one module instead of two | |
| 20 | - review by the wireless developer community | |
| 25985edc | 21 | - verify the code against the coding standards for a proper linux |
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22 | driver |
| 23 | - resolve license issues (?) | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | DONE: | |
| 26 | - verified against a Hermes II card (Thomson Speedtouch 110 PCMCIA | |
| 27 | card) | |
| 86f9150c | 28 | - verified with WEP encryption |
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29 | |
| 30 | Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg | |
| 31 | Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and Cc: Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@amsat.org> | |
| 32 | Don't bother the upstream wireless kernel developers about it, they | |
| 33 | want nothing to do with it. |