Monday, November 29, 2010

Prism USB chipsets

As you maybe know tosa devices contain internal wifi cards based on Prism3-USB chipset (manufactured by Ambit). Wlan-ng driver (present in staging) for such kind of devices is old, mostly-unmaintained and does not really fits current kernel WiFi stack. Non-USB versions of Prism3 devices are supported by HostAP driver, which needs adaptation (kinda big one) to work with USB devices. Working right on tosa isn't really suitable for basic driver debugging. Today I've got normal external card (Siemens SS1022) compatible with tosa one which I can use for my experiments. Happy hacking!