Alpha testers wanted for wireless network driver on Prometheus

[Sparky]

There are actually loads of 16 bit 802.11b cards in the wild, try here for a rough list (quick google showed it up) :

http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/Client_5fAdapters_5f802_5f11b

Now drivers are a totally different matter :-)
Be nice to see if it could be done for the A600/1200 though.

[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?

[Hakon]

i hope those drivers will work under amithlon one day . would be great.

[Crumb]

OpenPCI drivers don't work correctly with Prometheus & Amithlon so I would keep away from them until Titan fixes them.