ACX111-Chipset supported by NetworkManager?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 09:49:01AM -0700, Don Springall wrote:
> >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 06:44:39AM -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 22:00 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> >>> >
> >>> > i use a d-link DWL-G650+ with the ACX111-Chipset. Until now, i used
> >>> > ndiswrapper (which is working quite well also with wpa_supplicant)
> >>> >
> >>> > As new NetworkManager supports WPA too, i would give him a try, if it
> >>> > would support ACX111.
> >>> >
> >>> > Somebody found a list of supported chipsets by NetworkManager?
> >>>
> >>> http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
> >>>
> >>> Has drivers.  Unfortunately you will need to recompile them as new
> >>> kernels are released.  I believe Ubuntu uses them and they work very
> >>> well on my Ubuntu laptop and a DWL-650+  (no 'G' in the P/N).
> >>
> >> I'm planning to submit a package with those to Fedora Extras.
> >> I've been building RPMs with these for personal use for some time
> >> now.
> >>
> >1) This is good news, having those in extras soon
> >
> >2) i would like to now, if those drivers are networkmanager-enabled. As i
> >know, ndiswrapper isn't. And as networkmanager supports now wpa i would
> >like this :-D
> >
> Does the acx111 driver work with a 4 K stack  or do you need to re-compile 
> with a 8 k stack ?

NDIS driver didn't work with 4K stack for me, i.e. it crashed.
Open-source driver works more or less fine, although transfer
rates are lower. I haven't had enough time to get around to debugging
this so far.

Regards,

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