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James M. Leddy (jm-leddy) wrote : Re: include the Atheros AR8131/AR8151/AR8152/AR8161 Ethernet driver

A few things have changed since I last read the thread:

Date Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:52:34 -0700
From "Luis R. Rodriguez" <>
Subject Re: [PATCH] net: add QCA alx Ethernet driver

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 04:45:54PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
>
> Submitting alx that only supports the newer chipsets is fine.

We will work on this and resubmit, the delta for the other chipsets
can also be addressed within atl1c, in addition to working on getting
documentation out to help enable further.

  Luis

We'll have to wait for QCA to finish alx for the new cards _only_. Likely this will make it in for quantal.

For precise and earlier, we'll have to wait for the compat wireless 3.4.0 package that has this module in it.

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