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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c')
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c index c00388ec946..7b940509638 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ * Driver for Prism II devices which would usually be driven by orinoco_cs, * but are connected to the PCI bus by a PLX9052. * - * Current maintainers (as of 29 September 2003) are: + * Current maintainers are: * Pavel Roskin <proski AT gnu.org> * and David Gibson <hermes AT gibson.dropbear.id.au> * @@ -30,38 +30,18 @@ * other provisions required by the GPL. If you do not delete the * provisions above, a recipient may use your version of this file * under either the MPL or the GPL. - - * Caution: this is experimental and probably buggy. For success and - * failure reports for different cards and adaptors, see - * orinoco_plx_id_table near the end of the file. If you have a - * card we don't have the PCI id for, and looks like it should work, - * drop me mail with the id and "it works"/"it doesn't work". - * - * Note: if everything gets detected fine but it doesn't actually send - * or receive packets, your first port of call should probably be to - * try newer firmware in the card. Especially if you're doing Ad-Hoc - * modes. - * - * The actual driving is done by orinoco.c, this is just resource - * allocation stuff. The explanation below is courtesy of Ryan Niemi - * on the linux-wlan-ng list at - * http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/dev/linux-wlan/2001-q1/0026.html * - * The PLX9052-based cards (WL11000 and several others) are a - * different beast than the usual PCMCIA-based PRISM2 configuration - * expected by wlan-ng. Here's the general details on how the WL11000 - * PCI adapter works: + * Here's the general details on how the PLX9052 adapter works: * * - Two PCI I/O address spaces, one 0x80 long which contains the * PLX9052 registers, and one that's 0x40 long mapped to the PCMCIA * slot I/O address space. * - * - One PCI memory address space, mapped to the PCMCIA memory space + * - One PCI memory address space, mapped to the PCMCIA attribute space * (containing the CIS). * - * After identifying the I/O and memory space, you can read through - * the memory space to confirm the CIS's device ID or manufacturer ID - * to make sure it's the expected card. qKeep in mind that the PCMCIA + * Using the later, you can read through the CIS data to make sure the + * card is compatible with the driver. Keep in mind that the PCMCIA * spec specifies the CIS as the lower 8 bits of each word read from * the CIS, so to read the bytes of the CIS, read every other byte * (0,2,4,...). Passing that test, you need to enable the I/O address @@ -71,7 +51,7 @@ * within the PCI memory space. Write 0x41 to the COR register to * enable I/O mode and to select level triggered interrupts. To * confirm you actually succeeded, read the COR register back and make - * sure it actually got set to 0x41, incase you have an unexpected + * sure it actually got set to 0x41, in case you have an unexpected * card inserted. * * Following that, you can treat the second PCI I/O address space (the @@ -101,16 +81,6 @@ * that, I've hot-swapped a number of times during debugging and * driver development for various reasons (stuck WAIT# line after the * radio card's firmware locks up). - * - * Hope this is enough info for someone to add PLX9052 support to the - * wlan-ng card. In the case of the WL11000, the PCI ID's are - * 0x1639/0x0200, with matching subsystem ID's. Other PLX9052-based - * manufacturers other than Eumitcom (or on cards other than the - * WL11000) may have different PCI ID's. - * - * If anyone needs any more specific info, let me know. I haven't had - * time to implement support myself yet, and with the way things are - * going, might not have time for a while.. */ #define DRIVER_NAME "orinoco_plx" |