2006/08/16

Orinoco 0.15 final released

• Update for the new PCMCIA API in the kernel.
• Add support for dBm quality on Intersil firmware 1.3.1 and newer.
• Use a better formula for signal/noise for other firmwares.
• Disallow compilation for kernels with Orinoco driver already enabled.

• Scanning support.
• Monitor mode support (except Agere firmware 7.xx and 8.xx).
• Support for Symbol Spectrum Trilogy V3 cards.
• Support for Nortel emobility, Symbol LA-4113 and Symbol LA-4123.
• Countless updates for the kernel API.
• Countless bug fixes.
• Many minor improvements.

2006/04/11

orinoco-fwutils 0.2 released

• Ensure compatibility with Perl that has Unicode support on by default
• Provide SHA1 checksums for the generated files
• Fix curl warning in get_ezusb_fw

2005/12/14

Orinoco 0.15rc4 released

• Fix compilation for Ubuntu kernels - get KERNELRELEASE from linux/version.h rather than from the kernel makefiles.
• Fixes for serious bitrot in airport and orinoco_nortel.
• Allow writing odd number of bytes to BAP.
• Don't pad transmitted packets.
• Simplified transmission padding code.
• Annotation for sparse provided.
• Remove lots of old debugging code.
• Fix setting power saving mode.
• Power management works in all PCI drivers.
• All PCI drivers free and re-acquire IRQ on suspend/resume.
• Use only iomem API for hardware access.

2005/09/22

Orinoco 0.15rc3 released

• Remove all compatibility code for 2.4 kernels - Linux 2.6.11 or newer is required.
• hermes.conf is automatically generated.
• hermes.conf is not installed by default - use "make installconf".
• Split firmware utilities to orinoco-fwutils package.
• Update to the current Linux kernel.
• Better integration with the kernel build system.
• Use ssleep() or msleep() instead of hardcoded schedule_timeout() (Nishanth Aravamudan via kernel-janitors list).
• Several cleanups and bugfixes in pci/plx/tmd/nortel drivers.
• Fix memory leak in orinoco_join_ap().
• Change io handling to avoid sparse and gcc warnings.
• Use C99 array initializers and ARRAY_SIZE() for iw_handler tables.
• Cleanup of rx stats handling.