| Justin P. Mattock | 86f9150 | 2012-09-10 16:01:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | First of all, the best thing would be that this driver becomes obsolete by |
| Henk de Groot | a6f95b6e | 2009-10-28 23:43:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 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. |
| Lucas De Marchi | 25985ed | 2011-03-30 22:57:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | Since this will not happen by magic and has not happened until now this |
| Henk de Groot | a6f95b6e | 2009-10-28 23:43:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 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 |
| Justin P. Mattock | 86f9150 | 2012-09-10 16:01:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | - verify with WPA encryption (both with H2 and H2.5 cards) |
| Henk de Groot | a6f95b6e | 2009-10-28 23:43:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | - sometimes the card does not initialize correctly, retry mechanisms |
| Justin P. Mattock | 86f9150 | 2012-09-10 16:01:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | are built in to catch most cases but not all |
| Henk de Groot | a6f95b6e | 2009-10-28 23:43:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | - once the driver runs it is very stable, but I have the impression |
| Justin P. Mattock | 86f9150 | 2012-09-10 16:01:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | that some of the critical sections take some time. |
| Henk de Groot | a6f95b6e | 2009-10-28 23:43:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 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 |
| Lucas De Marchi | 25985ed | 2011-03-30 22:57:33 -0300 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | - verify the code against the coding standards for a proper linux |
| Henk de Groot | a6f95b6e | 2009-10-28 23:43:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | driver |
| 23 | - resolve license issues (?) |
| 24 | |
| 25 | DONE: |
| 26 | - verified against a Hermes II card (Thomson Speedtouch 110 PCMCIA |
| 27 | card) |
| Justin P. Mattock | 86f9150 | 2012-09-10 16:01:27 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | - verified with WEP encryption |
| Henk de Groot | a6f95b6e | 2009-10-28 23:43:55 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 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. |