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Ha! Looks like they're going to use the wifi driver that Nokia open-sourced!

http://openpandora.wordpress.com/200...is-talks-wifi/

[T]he WL12xx driver [is] written by Kalle Valo of Nokia. This is a nice modern driver (MAC80211) and is already in Wireless-Testing (as of a few days ago) and on its way to mainline.

This driver was SPI only but a gent by the name of Bob Copeland added the start of SDIO support and we are working off that base to bring the driver up on the Pandora so we have a nice solid mainline driver to use that is actively developed, supports the Pandora out of the gate, and is easy to maintain.

As of now I have the WL2151 firmware loading on the Pandora with the new driver and lots of nice signs of life but the work is a little way away from passing traffic (the Linux SDIO stack is causing me pain)...

The only real snag is on the SDIO communication side of things (timing issues I think) but I have been getting some helpful advice on that front so the plan is to sink a few hours into that over the weekend. Started to push a few simple patches upstream for things like chip ID’s so with any luck by the time the driver hits mainline the Pandora should ‘just work’ if I can nail all the SDIO bits.

Once I get things settled (hopefully) I want to have a play with trying to get hostapd going as I have some funky uses for a mobile access point in mind

If anyone wants patches (or is familiar with the kernels SDIO stack) drop me a bell.
Should he be bugged to contribute patches back to the "upstream project" here at maemo.org?

EDIT: I was wrong, that driver isn't on maemo.org; it must be part of the main Linux kernel .... cool...
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