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Re: Atheros AR5211 Support

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Old 02-18-2008, 07:23 AM
reyk@vantronix.net
 
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Default Re: Atheros AR5211 Support

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:54:49PM -0500, Sam Chill wrote:
> I see that as of today a driver exits in the kernel for the Atheros
> AR5210 if I am not mistaken. I have a Orinoco Proxim Silver card which
> uses an Atheros AR5211. Is this chip different enough that it cannot use
> the same driver? I would be more than willing to test any drivers and
> report back. I am very excited about support for this card.


this chipset is not yet supported. it is very similar but introduces
incompatible changes like multiple tx queues, multi-mode support,
various other gimmicks and of course a lot of obscurity.

reyk

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