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+First of all, the best thing would be that this driver becomes obsolte by
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+adding support for Hermes II and Hermes II.5 cards to the existing orinoco
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+driver. The orinoco driver currently only supports Hermes I based cards.
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+Since this will not happen by magic and has not happend until now this
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+driver provides a stop-gap solution for these type of cards.
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+Having said that, the following wishlist comes to mind to make the driver
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+suitable as fully supported kernel driver. Feel free to expand/enhance the
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+list.
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+TODO:
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+ - verify against a Hermes II.5 card
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+ - verify with WPA encription (both with H2 and H2.5 cards)
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+ - sometimes the card does not initialize correctly, retry mechanisms
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+ are build in to catch most cases but not all
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+ - once the driver runs it is very stable, but I have the impression
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+ some the crittical sections take to long
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+ - the driver is split into a Hermes II and a Hermes II.5 part, it
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+ would be nice to handle both with one module instead of two
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+ - review by the wireless developer community
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+ - verify the code against the coding standards for a propper linux
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+ driver
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+ - resolve license issues (?)
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+DONE:
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+ - verified against a Hermes II card (Thomson Speedtouch 110 PCMCIA
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+ card)
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+ - verified with WEP encription
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+Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg
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+Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and Cc: Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@amsat.org>
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+Don't bother the upstream wireless kernel developers about it, they
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+want nothing to do with it.
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