Hello!
On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 00:02 +0200, Pierre Juillard wrote:
> I'm not an expert, and I would like some more explanations about the
> possibilities that will bring the Orinoco drivers 0.15.
>
> I have a "IEEE 802.11b Wireless MiniPCI Card 7007" from Agere, sometimes
> also known as a wll070 and which has the pci id 11c1:ab34, given with a
> lspci -n command.
>
> This card, after much work with google to find any informations, seems
> to be provided with a Hermes II chipset.
Yes.
> I would like to know if such a card will have any chance to work with
> the new Orinoco 0.15 drivers?
No. The firmware download is not in 0.15. That's a major change, and
0.15 is deeply in the "release candidate" stage.
> Moreover, I've heard about a drivers stack "Advanced Datapath" 802.11
> from Devicescape that would allow more cards to work under Linux than
> now. I'm afraid to ask because you may find that question silly but is
> there any chance that it could bring a solution in order to use this
> wifi card (it's built in my laptop and I would like to use it, instead
> of a wire...)
It could help in theory if somebody decides to take the Agere lkm driver
and rewrite in for the Devicescape stack. But I think it's quite
unlikely.
Rewriting Orinoco for Devicescape won't help with your card, because
Orinoco lacks the necessary hardware specific part for that card
(firmware download), and the Devicescape stack is not hardware specific.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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