Anyone using ray_cs wireless driver?

John W. Linville

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Mar 10, 2010, 11:40:02 AM3/10/10

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I'm just curious to know if anyone is using ray_cs (even occasionally
and/or just for testing)? Does anyone even have the hardware?

AFAICT ray_cs hasn't seen any changes that were not either part of a
tree-wide API change, the result of some static analysis tool run, the
result of some random code audit by Alan Cox or Al Viro, or something
else along those lines since before 2.6.12-rc2 (i.e. during the entire
history of git).

The driver may still work perfectly fine, or it might not -- I have
no way of knowing. As it stands, I'm inclined to believe that it is
at best a drag on code maintenance resources and at worst a broken
and useless code appendage.

So, anyone using it? At the very least, can anyone try it?

John
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Andreas Mohr

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Mar 11, 2010, 3:10:04 PM3/11/10

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Hi,

> I'm just curious to know if anyone is using ray_cs (even occasionally
> and/or just for testing)? Does anyone even have the hardware?

Would that be... me? ;)

I _think_ my cards are ray_cs.
What I know for 199% certainty is that they _are_ FHSS, i.e. pre-DSSS 802.11,
as such chances are moderately high ;)
(these are two or possibly even three PCMCIA cards, with a PCI-PCMCIA
adapter)

I don't have them here right now (and didn't find any meaningful traces on the PC
that I used to use them with, back in <= 2002 or so...), but I can fetch
them very soon and possibly test them (no promises ATM though).

Out of interest: how many inner circles of communication
analysis&interception vehicle traffic will I manage to inflict upon me once
putting them back into service?? ;))
[ok, relax: it's ISM band after all - at most a couple dozen neighbours
will be annoyed about their probably rather effectful DSSS interference...]

Andreas Mohr

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Mar 11, 2010, 3:30:03 PM3/11/10

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On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 09:06:29PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I'm just curious to know if anyone is using ray_cs (even occasionally
> > and/or just for testing)? Does anyone even have the hardware?
>
> Would that be... me? ;)
>
> I _think_ my cards are ray_cs.

Yup, it must be this one (flip antenna!):
http://www.sekaimon.com/i120539073445
http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://di1.shopping.com/images1/pi/c5/1f/00/20630490-60x60-0-0_Webgear+Aviator+97010007+101.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dealtime.com/-save+link+wireless&usg=__Sg0J_zo1D57Q27bIqP8lnXJFit4=&h=60&w=60&sz=1&hl=de&start=1&itbs=1&tbnid=NL8vISfc_6rC6M:&tbnh=60&tbnw=60&prev=/images?q=webgear+fhss&hl=de&sa=G&gbv=2&tbs=isch:1

I.e., a WebGear Aviator and thus ray_cs.

Although with an ISA PCMCIA adaptor. Which is a problem, since I'd need
_two_ CardBus notebooks then. OTOH I do have an older notebook
installation which I could use for the other side.