Re: [Bug 162671] Re: VT6656 wireless chipset is unsupported

2009-07-29 Thread Forest Bond
@hal2k1 > The hardware that I have is a netbook. It uses an Intel Atom CPU, and > although the VT6656 chip is a USB device, it is not removable from the > interior of the netbook. I'd imagine that this is not an unusual usage > of this chip. Can you tell me which model the netbook is? Thanks, Fo

Re: [Bug 162671] Re: VT6656 wireless chipset is unsupported

2009-07-14 Thread Forest Bond
Hi Jim, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:27:18PM -, Jim Lieb wrote: > I got it to compile in staging in our ubuntu-karmic git. It would not compile > for 64 bit .31rc2 because the code fell into the sizeof(int) == sizeof(void *) > trap. I fixed these by using the support fctns and macros. I have

Re: [Bug 162671] Re: VT6656 wireless chipset is unsupported

2009-04-24 Thread Forest Bond
Hi, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:44:03PM -, raulmuaddib wrote: > I'm having a problem too, I thought this was going to be driver that > would be integrated into the kernel. My wireless did not work with the > RC. Will it work with the Final Release? A new driver with a proper license was rel

Re: [Bug 162671] Re: VT6656 wireless chipset is unsupported

2009-03-19 Thread Ra'id Jamali
With pleasure. Of course kernel integration would be great. Yet with dkms now easily available, we may already have a sufficient (temporary) autoinstall solution. The compilation for VT6656 appears quite straightforward. I'm guessing minor mods to the Makefile and a short dkms.conf would do the tr