4331 support

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Thu Aug 25 19:36:55 EDT 2011


On 08/25/2011 06:27 PM, james at jamesanslow.net wrote:
> Hi Larry,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me on this. I'm not overly experienced when it comes
> to driver development and so I may be best suited to waiting until this is made
> live. That is, unless compiling and patching experimental drivers is an easy
> thing to do (but from what I understand it's not?)

If you want to wait, then it will be kernel 3.2 before this stuff is built in. 
FYI, that will ~4-5 months.

The material will be available in the compat-wireless package that may be 
available for your distro in a few weeks.

The difficulty in building the kernel depends on your distro. For openSUSE, it 
is pretty easy. For Debian-based distros, it is a bit more difficult; however, 
once you have all the tools installed, the commands are easy. It just takes a while.

Please do a "reply-to-all". I do not do private consulting unless you are paying.

Larry




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