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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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33 lines
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First of all, the best thing would be that this driver becomes obsolte by
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adding support for Hermes II and Hermes II.5 cards to the existing orinoco
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driver. The orinoco driver currently only supports Hermes I based cards.
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Since this will not happen by magic and has not happened until now this
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driver provides a stop-gap solution for these type of cards.
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Having said that, the following wishlist comes to mind to make the driver
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suitable as fully supported kernel driver. Feel free to expand/enhance the
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list.
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TODO:
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- verify against a Hermes II.5 card
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- verify with WPA encription (both with H2 and H2.5 cards)
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- sometimes the card does not initialize correctly, retry mechanisms
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are build in to catch most cases but not all
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- once the driver runs it is very stable, but I have the impression
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some the crittical sections take to long
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- the driver is split into a Hermes II and a Hermes II.5 part, it
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would be nice to handle both with one module instead of two
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- review by the wireless developer community
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- verify the code against the coding standards for a proper linux
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driver
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- resolve license issues (?)
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DONE:
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- verified against a Hermes II card (Thomson Speedtouch 110 PCMCIA
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card)
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- verified with WEP encription
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Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg
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Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and Cc: Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@amsat.org>
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Don't bother the upstream wireless kernel developers about it, they
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want nothing to do with it.
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