[ltp] Cisco mini-pci wifi card & airo-linux driver

[Fabrice Bellet]

Hello,

There is a driver for the Cisco mini-pci wireless card, located at 
http://airo-linux.sourceforge.net/ and maintained by Benjamin Reed 
(file kernel/airo_mpi.c in the CVS repository).

This driver is an alternate solution to the cisco one, that supports 
wireless extensions. Some advantages of wireless extensions, are 
that all the parameters of the connection can be configured with the 
usual iwconfig command line, without requiring the Cisco user-unfriendly
binary-only GUI, a better integration with the startup scripts provided
by linux distributions vendors, ...

This driver (for the mini-pci cards) stayed dormant since a few monthes 
without development activity, in a state where it was not usable (rx was 
working, but tx was not). I helped to debug it, and the current version 
from the CVS repository basically now works for me and for Benjamin too. 
I can associate to the access point, setup WEP parameters, transmit and 
receive packets. So the basic features are here. Other ones remain 
untested currently. Fell free to give it a try, and to report your 
experiments/bugs on the sourceforge project page. This'll certainly 
motivate the developers lying around to continue and improve the support 
for these cards.

Best wishes,
-- 
fabrice