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ZD1211 appears to be back in production: a number of new devices have been appearing! Some of them are using new radios. This patch adds support for the next generation AL2230 RF chip which has been spotted in a few new devices. [As this patch was too late for 2.6.21, the kernel was modified to reject AL2230S devices because for me and others, the devices silently failed (and this looked like a driver bug). After doing so, a few people reported that AL2230S devices were working correctly for them even before AL2230S support was present. I'd like to propose that we fix both situations by backporting the AL2230S support into 2.6.21-stable] Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
README ------ This directory is mostly for Wireless LAN drivers, in their various incarnations (ISA, PCI, Pcmcia...). This separate directory is needed because a lot of driver work on different bus (typically PCI + Pcmcia) and share 95% of the code. This allow the code and the config options to be in one single place instead of scattered all over the driver tree, which is never 100% satisfactory. Note : if you want more info on the topic of Wireless LANs, you are kindly invited to have a look at the Wireless Howto : http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ Some Wireless LAN drivers, like orinoco_cs, require the use of Wireless Tools to be configured : http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html Special notes for distribution maintainers : 1) wvlan_cs will be discontinued soon in favor of orinoco_cs 2) Please add Wireless Tools support in your scripts Have fun... Jean