Added update of network device error statistics.
Based on earlier work by Maxime Austruy.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This resets the device in the probe call. It does work with
2.6.19.2 including the softmac patches. It might fix the
reboot/reset problems a lot of people reported.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
usb_init should call destroy_workqueue when usb_register fails.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Austruy <maxime@tralhalla.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Marijn Schouten
zd1211b chip 0586:340f v4810 high 00-13-49 AL2230_RF pa0 g---
FCC ID: I88G220V2
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Henrik Hjelte
zd1211b chip 13b1:0024 v4802 high 00-14-bf AL2230_RF pa0 ----
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Instead of passing our own custom 32-bit addresses around and
translating them, this patch makes all our register address constants
absolute and removes the translation.
There are two ugly parts:
- fw_reg_addr() is needed to compute addresses of firmware registers, as this
is dynamic based upon firmware
- inc_addr() needs a small hack to handle byte vs word addressing
However, both of those are only small, and we don't use fw_regs a whole
lot anyway.
The bonuses here include simplicity and improved driver readability. Also, the
fact that registers are now referenced by 16-bit absolute addresses (as
opposed to 32-bit pseudo addresses) means that over 2kb compiled code size has
been shaved off.
Includes some touchups and sparse fixes from Ulrich Kunitz.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The zd1211rw address space has confused me once too many times. This
patch introduces the following naming notation:
Memory space is split into segments (cr, fw, eeprom) and segments may
contain components (e.g. boot code inside eeprom). These names are
arbitrary and only for the description below:
x_START: Absolute address of segment start
(previously these were named such as CR_BASE_OFFSET, but they weren't
really offsets unless you were considering them as an offset to 0)
x_LEN: Segment length
x_y_LEN: Length of component y of segment x
x_y_OFFSET: Relative address of component y into segment x. The absolute
address for this component is (x_START + x_y_OFFSET)
I also renamed EEPROM registers to EEPROM data. These 'registers' can't
be written to using standard I/O and really represent predefined data
from the vendor.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Many of the registers written during ZD1211 HMAC initialization are
duplicated exactly for ZD1211B. Move the identical ones into a generic
part, and write the hardware-specific ones separately.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The driver called ieee80211_rx in hardware interrupt context. This has
been against the intention of the ieee80211_rx function. It caused a bug
in the crypto routines used by WPA. This patch calls ieee80211_rx in a
tasklet.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Run this:
#!/bin/sh
for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
echo "De-casting $f..."
perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
done
And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
to non-pointers.
And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Support for multicast adresses is implemented by supporting the
set_multicast_list() function of the network device. Address
filtering is supported by a group hash table in the device.
This is based on earlier work by Benoit Papillaut. Fixes multicast packet
reception and ipv6 connectivity:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7424http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7425
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is needed for NetworkManager users to connect to WPA networks.
Pointed out by Matthew Campbell.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
e.g.
usb 1-7: rx_urb_complete() *** first fragment ***
usb 1-7: rx_urb_complete() *** second fragment ***
drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c:1063 ASSERT
(((current_thread_info()->preempt_count) & (((1UL << (12))-1) << ((0 +
8) + 8)))) VIOLATED!
[<f0299448>] zd_mac_rx+0x3e7/0x47a [zd1211rw]
[<f029badc>] rx_urb_complete+0x22d/0x24a [zd1211rw]
[<b028a22f>] urb_destroy+0x0/0x5
[<b01f0930>] kref_put+0x65/0x72
[<b0288cdf>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x28/0x57
[<b02950c4>] qh_completions+0x296/0x2f6
[<b0294b21>] ehci_urb_done+0x70/0x7a
[<b0294ea1>] qh_completions+0x73/0x2f6
[<b02951bc>] ehci_work+0x98/0x538
Remove the bogus assertion, and use dev_kfree_skb_any as pointed out by
Ulrich Kunitz.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Fix up arch-specific work items where possible to use the new work_struct and
delayed_work structs.
Three places that enqueue bits of their stack and then return have been marked
with #error as this is not permitted.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Conflicts:
drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
drivers/usb/core/hub.h
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
net/core/netpoll.c
Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
This adds zd1211rw driver support for the softmac functionality I
added a while back. We now obey changes in basic rates, use short
preamble if it is available (but long if the AP says it's not),
and send self-CTS in the proper situations.
Locking fixed and improved by Ulrich Kunitz.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
These controlset rate constants are also applicable in places outside
the controlset, such as in the RTS/CTS control register.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Eric Goff found that he could not use his ZD1211 device which is
programmed for the Japan regulatory domain. It turns out that ZyDAS
deviate from the spec here: they do not use the newer Japan region code
(0x41) but their drivers do operate as if the newer Japan legal
frequency range is in effect.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are a high number of split USB transactions, which contain
only one packet but have a length info field. This patch optimizes
this code by stopping parsing the length info structure if a zero
length field is encountered.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Bit-field constants in zd_chip.h are now defined using a shift expression.
The value 0x08 is now (1 << 3). The fix is intended to improve readability.
Remove misleading comment in zd_mac.c: The function already returns -EPERM
in managed mode (IW_MODE_INFRA).
Remove unused code in zd_mac.c: The unused code intended for debugging
rx_status values is no longer useful.
Added dump_stack() to ZD_ASSERT macro: Output of the stack helps to debug
assertions. Keep in mind that the ZD_ASSERT() macro only results in code,
if DEBUG is defined.
Improved comments for filter_rx()
zd_usb.c: Added driver name to module init and exit functions
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7399
zd1211rw's support for IW_FREQ_AUTO is broken: when specified, the driver
tries to change to a channel specified in an uninitialized integer. As
IW_FREQ_AUTO is hard to implement properly, the solution (at least for now)
is to drop support for it and start ignoring the flags like all other wireless
drivers do.
This has the added advantage that kismet also starts working with zd1211rw,
even though kismet requesting IW_FREQ_AUTO is also a bug (fixed in their svn)
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
zd1211b chip 050d:705c v4810 high 00-17-3f AL2230_RF pa0 g--N
Tested by Bryan Barnard
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
zd1211 chip 14ea:ab13 v4330 high 00-90-cc AL2230_RF pa0 g---
Tested by Tetsuya Yatagai.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Newsome on IRC
zd1211 chip 0586:3401 v4330 high 00-13-49 AL2230_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This reverts commit 4e1bbd846d.
Quoth Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>:
"A user reported that commit 4e1bbd846d
(Remove unneeded packed attributes) breaks the zd1211rw driver on ARM."
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch fixes the bug as reported in the kernel bug tracker
under the id 7244. The bug was simply that the interrupt lock has
been locked outside an interrupt without blocking the interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.
The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).
Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.
Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.
I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.
This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:
struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
And put the old one back at the end:
set_irq_regs(old_regs);
Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().
In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:
- update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
- profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
+ update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
+ profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().
Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:
(*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in
the input_dev struct.
(*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does
something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
pointer or not.
(*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
irq_handler_t.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
This patch includes a big cleanup of the existing unused LED code,
and adds support for controlling the LED.
The link LED will blink if the device is not associated. The LED
switches between 2 seconds on and 1 second off. If the device is
associated the LED is switched on.
The link LED also indicates packet TX. I do a little bit more led
resetting than the vendor driver, but the device works now as
expected for single LED and double LED devices.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
For housekeeping and watchdog tasks a workqueue is created. The
central workqueue is not used to prevent crashes creates by bugs.
It might be changed, when the housekeeping is stabilized.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Checking whether a mutex is not locked directly before
mutex_lock() is called, doesn't make sense. The whole point of
mutex_lock() is to block, if the mutex is locked.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Caused by the fact that physical control registers appear to have
only a width of 16 bit, 32-bit writes are not required.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Inspired by an e-mail by Stephen Hemminger I decided to remove all
unneeded packed attributes from the code where the member variables are
already aligned. This avoids horrible code being generated on some
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Vincent TOUCHARD
zd1211 chip 0b05:170c v4802 high 00-11-d8 AL2230_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Martin Dummer.
zd1211 chip 0b3b:5630 v4330 high 00-01-e3 RF2959_RF pa0 ---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Caused by a documentation issue I mixed up fields of the zd_status
structure. This patch fixes it and improves also the average
computation, which is now using only measurements of packets sent
by the access point.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add static to 2 internal functions. Thanks goes to Adrian Bunk, who found that.
Also made some modifications to the clear functions:
After a discussion on the mailing list, I implemented this code to
have on the one hand sufficient test in debug mode, but on the
other hand reduce the overhead for structure clearing to a
minimum.
A new macro ZD_MEMCLEAR is introduced, which produces code if
DEBUG is set. Locks are not set anymore for structure clearing,
but in debug mode, there is a verification, that the locks have
not been set.
Finally, removed a misleading comment regarding locking in the disconnect
path.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The Longshine device is a ZD1211B and has a AL2230 RF. I tested it
successfully with no encryption and WEP.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Some devices identify themselves as a virtual USB CDROM drive. The virtual CD
includes the windows driver. We aren't interested in this, so we eject the
virtual CDROM and then the real wireless device appears.
Patch fixed over the earlier version to not leak cmd, thanks to Michael Buesch
for spotting that.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
zd1211 chip 0586:3402 v4916 high 00-13-49 AL2230_RF pa0 ----
This device pops up after the virtual driver CD has been ejected.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This is needed for my G220F, otherwise it fails to initialize after the
existing firmware upload routine.
The vendor driver actually does more than what I have done here: it
downloads the firmware + boot code, modifies it, and uploads it again
(really messy). I have not copied that part over, as my device can get
on its feet without it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by Wonka on IRC.
zd1211 chip 157e:3204 v4810 high 00-11-e0 AL7230B_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tested by lyakh on IRC
zd1211 chip 1740:2000 v4721 high 00-02-6f AL7230B_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds support for another Airoha RF which is present in some
ZD1211 adapters. This RF supports 802.11a as well as 802.11b/g, but 802.11a
connectivity is not yet supported by this driver.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch synchronizes our code to some recent vendor driver modifications.
A new PHY layout is supported, some values are tweaked, and the AL2230 is now
programmed over a new interface which is many times faster.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The vendor driver resets the IFS value every time the channel changes,
to this one.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The vendor driver chooses this value based on an ifndef ASIC,
and ASIC is never defined.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I had problems with my AVM Fritz!Box access point. It appeared
that the AP deauthorized me and the softmac didn't reconnect me.
This patch handles the problem.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Discovered a problem while accessing www.python.org on my PPC32.
The problem was pretty consistent for all sticks. The reason was
that while testing for the length info tag, I ignored the
endianess of the host system.
Please recognize that converting the constant to little endian, we
create faster code.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This function is never called in interrupt context, and it doesn't
matter if it is called in IRQ context or not.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Apparently the ZD1211 doesn't mind, but the ZD1211B absolutely must be
told that encryption is happening in software.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We'll be needing these at some point...
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There has been a problem in the radiotap header. Monitor mode
works now with tcpdump 3.94 + libpcap 0.9.4. ethereal 0.99.0 +
libpcap 0.9.4 is broken, because it doesn't find the right offset
for the IEEE 802.11 header.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
wireless.h discourages using SIOCGIWNAME to publish the driver name
which the interface belongs to. Use SIOCGIWNICKN instead.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Based on a patch by Matthieu CASTET.
zd1211 chip 079b:004a v4330 high 00-60-b3 AL2230_RF pa0 g--
zd1211b chip 079b:0062 v4810 high 00-60-b3 AL2230_RF pa0 g--
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
We will reimplement halt-clearing later, when we have periodic
housekeeping routines in place. This will do as a temporary fix, the
EPIPE case has not yet been seen.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
There are 60+ USB wifi adapters available on the market based on the ZyDAS
ZD1211 chip.
Unlike the predecessor (ZD1201), ZD1211 does not have a hardware MAC, so most
data operations are coordinated by the device driver. The ZD1211 chip sits
alongside an RF transceiver which is also controlled by the driver. Our driver
currently supports 2 RF types, we know of one other available in a few marketed
products which we will be supporting soon.
Our driver also supports the newer revision of ZD1211, called ZD1211B. The
initialization and RF operations are slightly different for the new revision,
but the main difference is 802.11e support. Our driver does not support the
QoS features yet, but we think we know how to use them.
This driver is based on ZyDAS's own GPL driver available from www.zydas.com.tw.
ZyDAS engineers have been responsive and supportive of our efforts, so thumbs
up to them. Additionally, the firmware is redistributable and they have
provided device specs.
This driver has been written primarily by Ulrich Kunitz and myself. Graham
Gower, Greg KH, Remco and Bryan Rittmeyer have also contributed. The
developers of ieee80211 and softmac have made our lives so much easier- thanks!
We maintain a small info-page: http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/DriverRewrite
If there is enough time for review, we would like to aim for inclusion in
2.6.18. The driver works nicely as a STA, and can connect to both open and
encrypted networks (we are using software-based encryption for now). We will
work towards supporting more advanced features in the future (ad-hoc, master
mode, 802.11a, ...).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
