I now have enough interested testers. Even if you didn’t get a reply directly, if you’ve emailed me, you are added to the pool of testers. There are some who I have contacted directly, who are first in line to get any beta versions when required. If they disappear or are otherwise unable to test, others from the pool will be contacted.
Progress
As a test case I’ve ported the 2200BG driver to VoodooWireless — the hardware-specific driver code is now a paltry 1550 lines of code! This is the smallest out of all existing drivers for this wireless adapter — less than half of the size of the FreeBSD driver, and 10% the size of the Linux driver! Adding support for Ad-Hoc mode should take no more than 200 lines of code in the HAL (and some more in VoodooWireless). WEP and WPA support can theoretically be added without modifying the HAL at all.
Unfortunately there are some bugs remaining in VoodooWireless. The scanning part is working well but there is some bug with transmission of packets. I’m currently trying to debug those.
3945 HAL is currently blocked on this, as the bug with packet Tx could be either in VoodooWireless or the 2200 HAL.
In any case, I’m moving towards having a working 3945 driver this month:)
