Support for RF UW2453_RF 0x9 in zd1211rw

[Fredrik Wendt]

Hi.

Some time ago I bought a USB wlan adapter (two actually) that were supposed to be supported. As you've realized by now, someone put a new RF chip in and voila - I'm stuck with ndiswrapper which doesn't work very well. I'm happy to see that 2.6.24-rc3 has some support for what I'm needing.

If I could, I'd read up on things and give it a go but it's 7 years since I wrote my last line of C code and have no knowledge about 802.xxx stuff. Basically I have two options:

a) try to find a new adapter that works and but that. I'm guessing some 60€ and two hours of reading, searching and some minutes of praying before it's plugged in.

b) put those 60€ into someone else's pocket in exchange for a patch (GPL) that makes makes this adapter usable reliably. Of course I'm willing to lend that person my two adapters for development, but I recon it's not hardware access that is the issue here.

So, I'm looking for guidance. Which path should I chose? If b, who (if anyone) would be suited to adress the issue and accept the rather small fee in return?

I hope I'm not offending anyone.

Thanks in advance, Fredrik

[Summerrj]

Fredrik Wendt wrote:

Hi.

Some time ago I bought a USB wlan adapter (two actually) that were supposed to be supported. As you've realized by now, someone put a new RF chip in and voila - I'm stuck with ndiswrapper which doesn't work very well. I'm happy to see that 2.6.24-rc3 has some support for what I'm needing.

I've got such a beast working quite happily now, using the whole wireless tree for 2.6.24-rc3 but linked to kernel 2.6.22. I just had to change a few lines of code to cope with printing of the mac address to the log. (I'm sure it's dangerous and not recommended but I couldn't get my graphics card working properly with 2.6.24)

What problems are you having with 2.6.24-rc3?

Rob