Alpha testers wanted for wireless network driver on Prometheus

[ncafferkey]

Hi,

I'm looking for a small number of people to test an 802.11b wireless network driver I'm writing. My driver is written to support Prometheus (as well as PCMCIA and other PCI solutions), but I don't have a Prometheus board. So if you have a Prometheus and a suitable wireless network card (see below), I'd appreciate your help.

To check if a card you have is suitable, see this list. Suitable PCI cards have a "Prism2/2.5/3" chipset. Suitable cards can also be identified by their PCI ID, which is 0x1260/0x3873. Please reply to this thread or e-mail me at caffer@cs.ucc.ie. Thanks.

[ncafferkey]

Crumb wrote:
Are you using DMA functions? I just ask this to know if the betatesters should have an updated firmware.

No, these cards don't use DMA.

[ncafferkey]

Brian wrote:
Sweet.. PCMCIA support... finaly I might be able to get rid of the ugly dongle on the side then once and for all. Question is, do there exist 16bit PCMCIA whireless ethernet cards with combo for ordinary LAN in case no whireless is available? I'd like to see a small compact thing on the side instead of the flimsy card and dongle routine I use now.

I'm not aware of any. That might be handy for a laptop, but I wouldn't see the point for a desktop computer.

I don't have a card to test with though so keep me/us up to date on how it's going. You say other PCI solutions, I don't suppose Mediator is in that category?

I'll try to support any bus-boards/platforms I can get the docs for.

[ncafferkey]

redrumloa wrote:
Sweet:-)

Do you need a Prometheus board? I can be of assistance :-D

Thanks, but I don't have a suitable Amiga to put one into. The driver already works in the AmigaOne, so hopefully porting it to the Prometheus should be fairly straight-forward.

I am certainly equiped to beta test drivers, I'll purchase a test card.

E-mail me when you've got one and I'll send you the driver.

BTW we have a Prometheus developer mailing list in place if you are interested.

I'll keep that in mind.

[ncafferkey]

Neko wrote:
How are you planning to maintain the WEP/WPA/etc. configuration of the WLAN card?

Through SANA-II "driver options"?

No, I've written a utility that sets wireless parameters and makes them available to the driver via a public data structure. Only WEP encryption will be supported.

I have always thought the driver model needs updating for WEP/WPA, maybe you could play a part in defining a new SANA-II revision

Yes, I've looked into that a bit.

Acill wrote:
I'm guessing you will be using OpenPCI for the drivers? If so will you be making a MorphOS/Pegasos version of the driver? I bet if you go to morphzone.org you can find a lot of willing help with that.

I probably won't be using OpenPCI. Do you know anything about docs availability for cybpci.library?