atmel support?

Jason Boxman jasonb
Thu Oct 17 11:28:03 PDT 2002


On Thursday 17 October 2002 07:14 am, Eerin Rosenstr?m wrote:
> Is there future plans to support atmel chipset (AT76C502A) with hostap
> driver?
>
> These cards are cheap and common. Big companies like d-link and smc move
> their prism2 based cards to atmel cards. Like smc2632w -> smc2632w v.2
> d-link dwl-650 -> dwl-650+.
>  It is dificult to find nowdays prism2 based cards...

I thought the DWL-650+ was a Texas Instruments chipset?

HostAP works because of special hooks in the STA firmware.  Even if these 
exist in Atmel cards, I suspect implementation would be wildly different than 
for Prism2 cards.

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