Yes, it's finally here.

Little has changed since -pre7, mainly a couple of card ident entries, and
some fixes that should make packaging a lot easier. Plus a set of debian
packaging files. Yay!

However, since 0.1.13, there have been a lot of major changes.

1) Complete rework of the internals to an almost zero-copy system.
2) True promiscious mode support.
3) Monitor mode uses PF_PACKET instead of NETLINK.
4) And a metric ton of bugfixes, updates, and additional card entries.

A complete changelog from 0.1.13 is below.

You can snag it at ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng

0.1.14
  - Added PCI ident info for the 3Com AirConnect PCI.
  - FCS toggle now (really) defaults to false.
  - Added PCMCIA ident info for the 3Com AirConnect 3CRW737A/3CRW777A
  - David Everly's patch to kernel detection in the Configure script
  - David Everly's patch to add better debian packaging bits.
-pre7
  - Added kernel tags stuff.
  - Added PCMCIA ident info for the Actiontec 802CI2 card.
  - Added PCMCIA ident info for the Proxim RangeLAN-DS/LAN card.
  - Endian "fixes" for PCI PowerMacs. This fix may be relevant for other
    BigEndian/PCI (and PLX) platforms.
  - FCS in monitor mode now optional; defaults to off.
  - Populate the monitor channel in the prismheader.
-pre6
  - monitor mode now works on USB widgets.
  - Fix an alignment bug in the rx path.
  - Fix a brown-paper-bag bug in the usb flash code.
  - Explicitly enumerate the USB widget endpoints, and use 'em.
  - REALLY fix the wlan.conf overwriting.
  - More minor cleanups in the PCI/PLX init code.
  - endian-ness fixes in the monitor code
  - Applied a patch from David Everly to fix another 2.2.x compile problem.
-pre5
  - Add USB entries for the "Melco WLI-USB-S11 11Mbps WLAN Adapter"
  - Don't overwrite /etc/wlan.conf if it already exists.
  - Compile sniffing code if packet socket is modularized.
  - Fix a typo with the init script.
  - Fix a compile problem with 2.2.x kernels
-pre4
  - First bits of the SMP/locking fixes.
  - Partial rewrite of the PCI/PLX/USB driver internals.
  - Added a makefile for the 'addons/keygen' tool.
  - Fixed a race condition in the USB code.
  - Applied Godmar Back's "SSIDs with spaces" patch.
-pre3
  - Applied pizza's patch to remove the pb_t structure and make all
    802.11<->ether conversions happen in-place. Noticeably reduces
    cpu load. Also includes a few misc bugfixes to the conversion code.
  - Workaround for the kernel panic on bringing up a USB interface
  - Applied Mike Klar's USB patch that adds support for the MIPS
   target and should, among other things, fix WEP under USB.
  - Added Remy Cool's patch to add the Dynalink prism2 card ids.
  - Tim Miller's pcmcia script install path patch
  - Applied Tim Fletcher's patch to allow compilation against
    the newest versions of the wireless extensions. (V13)
  - Added jwyatt's patch for the Compaq Evo N600C USB adapter thing.
  - Per mwelk's suggestion, changed the displaystring totext to single
    quote the strings. Hopefully this will take care of some of the
    "SSID w/ space" problems.
-pre2
  - tseward's ID code patch for Siemens SpeedStream USB adapters.
  - pizza's patch for dropping/ignoring frames in promisc and allmulti
    modes.
  - crankin's new Actiontec USB IDs.
  - crankin's fix for wext /proc zero vs. garbage problem.
-pre1
  - pizza's chkconfig comment in rc.wlan.
  - pizza's patch to add true promiscious support to 0.1.13. Also includes
    Experimental ALLMULTI support.
  - pizza's patch to add PF_PACKET capture and raw transmit to 0.1.13-pre2,
    (with toggles for WEP in sniffing and prism header)
    NOTE: this patch _removes_ the old netlink monitor mode (sniff) interface.
    If you're sniffing, you need to use the latest libpcap (v7.2-pre..from CVS),
    you'll also need to build your own ethereal (0.9.0 or greater) using the
    latest libpcap.
  - bhuang's fix for the hfa384x_test_command() function.

Enjoy, folks.

 - Pizza

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