p54u is a reverse engineered driver
for USB Prism54 SoftMAC wireless devices with
the ISL3880, ISL3886, and GW3887 chipsets.
It supports many of the USB adapters sold
nowadays.
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This release adds FreeBSD 6 support, a new firmware upload scheme (at
last, it will work when the device is connected at boot time), and a new
fix for the ARM memory allocator, eliminating some more random device
failures.
Software WEP support has been added, as well as a
function to reset the device without power-cycling
it (which is very useful for FreeMAC
developement). Various bugfixes and improvements
have also been made, including a fix for MAC
address changes.
UARTPCI now works with FreeMAC (there was a stupid bug in the previous
version). Endianness problems have also been corrected, and the IRQ
handling code is better.
This major release includes many changes coming from firmware reverse engineering. It includes basic support for the firmware being written from scratch, FreeMAC (unusable for most users for now). The memory allocation system has been reverse engineered. Most of the device's failures came from the poor handling of those in previous p54u versions. The SoftMAC protocol has been rewritten and cleaned up. The driver architecture has been completely reworked; it is far more stable and no longer relies on giant locking.
Various bugfixes and code cleanup, along with some new features (quite useful only for developers). Firmware is no longer stored in the code, but is loaded with the "firmwareagent" module.
