{"id":110,"date":"2006-07-10T23:10:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T23:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/07\/zd1211-support-in-linux-2618\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T00:18:02","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T00:18:02","slug":"zd1211-support-in-linux-2618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/07\/zd1211-support-in-linux-2618\/","title":{"rendered":"ZD1211 support in Linux 2.6.18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zd1211.ath.cx\/chrome\/common\/wifi-stick.png\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nOur <a href=\"http:\/\/zd1211.ath.cx\/wiki\/DriverRewrite\">driver<\/a> for USB-WLAN devices based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/zd1211.ath.cx\/\">ZD1211<\/a> chip has progressed through the chain of Linux networking development trees and is now included in the mainline kernel, as of 2.6.18-rc1. I have added the accompanying firmware package to Portage as <em>net-wireless\/zd1211-firmware<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We are still developing in out-of-tree git repositories, but I am feeding patches to the in-kernel version which will be sent to Linus during the appropriate merge windows.<\/p>\n<p>Ulrich is AWOL at the moment, probably due to post-World-Cup-depression, but I&#8217;m getting back towards actual driver development after some surgery on the softmac layer. Hopefully the minor instability issues will be fixed soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our driver for USB-WLAN devices based on the ZD1211 chip has progressed through the chain of Linux networking development trees and is now included in the mainline kernel, as of 2.6.18-rc1. I have added the accompanying firmware package to Portage as net-wireless\/zd1211-firmware. We are still developing in out-of-tree git repositories, but I am feeding patches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}