Re: Orinoco Wireless driver bugs in 2.5.17

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 00:38, David Gibson wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 07:40:27PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 02:25, David Gibson wrote:
> > > The signal/noise bit is probably a red herring.  We have problems with
> > > the reporting of this, but it's mostly cosmetic.  I seem to have
> > > confusing and contradictory information about how to interpret the
> > > values the firmware reports.
> > 
> > Ok the old driver gets the noise level right, the newer one got it
> > wrong, the current one gets it wrong. The good news is the old one
> > works, the new one didnt, the current 2.4.19pre one does...
> 
> Um, ok, now I'm a bit lost.  I'm guessing by "old driver" you mean the
> pre 2.4.18 one (0.06f?) by "new driver" you mean the one in 2.4.18 and
> "current driver" means the one in 2.4.19pre (0.11b) - i.e. newer than
> the "new" one.  Is that right?

It is right.