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1First of all, the best thing would be that this driver becomes obsolte by
2adding support for Hermes II and Hermes II.5 cards to the existing orinoco
3driver. The orinoco driver currently only supports Hermes I based cards.
4Since this will not happen by magic and has not happened until now this
5driver provides a stop-gap solution for these type of cards.
6
7Having said that, the following wishlist comes to mind to make the driver
8suitable as fully supported kernel driver. Feel free to expand/enhance the
9list.
10
11TODO:
12	- verify against a Hermes II.5 card
13	- verify with WPA encription (both with H2 and H2.5 cards)
14	- sometimes the card does not initialize correctly, retry mechanisms
15	  are build in to catch most cases but not all
16	- once the driver runs it is very stable, but I have the impression
17	  some the crittical sections take to long
18	- the driver is split into a Hermes II and a Hermes II.5 part, it
19	  would be nice to handle both with one module instead of two
20	- review by the wireless developer community
21	- verify the code against the coding standards for a proper linux
22	  driver
23	- resolve license issues (?)
24
25DONE:
26	- verified against a Hermes II card (Thomson Speedtouch 110 PCMCIA
27	  card)
28	- verified with WEP encription
29
30Please send any patches or complaints about this driver to Greg
31Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> and Cc: Henk de Groot <pe1dnn@amsat.org>
32Don't bother the upstream wireless kernel developers about it, they
33want nothing to do with it.
34