Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Building two (external) modules from the same sources | From | TJ <> | Date | Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:27:16 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 13:05 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Hm, I'll look at the code and see if I see anything obvious. > > > If someone could offer (link to) hermes-1/2 programming manual ... > > That would probably help out a lot :)
Unfortunately the changes in the corporate history have always confused the issue of locating the old documentation.
As I understand it, the chipset(s) were originally developed at Lucent around 1999-ish. In 2000 the division responsible became a subsidiary called Agere Systems. In 2002 it was spun-off as a separate business. In April 2007 it was bought by LSI Corporation, and by the end of 2007 had lost its separate existence, along with its web-site and the developer resources it provided.
The Wayback Machine has working links to the product data-sheets and the original driver packages:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031202185415/www.agere.com/client/wlan.html http://web.archive.org/web/20060330013615/http://www.agere.com/mobility/wireless_lan_drivers.html
There is another source of confusion - the actual chip-sets used.
Under the name WaveLAN/IEEE there was a pre-802.11b chip-set, as well as the later WaveLAN Hermes I (1/one) and II (2/two) which are 802.11b compatible.
The orinoco_cs drivers support the Hermes I chip-set, at least for WEP, but as I recall, not for WPA/WPA2.
With Andrey's modifications the wlags49 driver supports WPA but not WPA2 - at least not in my tests.
The only technical documentation I can find, and I'm not sure it will be completely applicable to the 802.11b Hermes chip-sets, is the 1999 Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs Innovations document:
"DRAFT Software Interface Specification for Wireless Connection Interface for WaveLAN/IEEE (HCF-light)"
which is available (for now) from a Berkeley graduate student's site:
http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/People/Grad_Students/jbeutel/wavelan_s0005-11-light.htm
The HCF information might be pretty close to what is used in the HCF by the Hermes wlags49 MSF.
TJ.
P.S. Andrey: Your mail-provider (mail.ru) is blocking my emails to you.
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