On Wednesday 31 August 2005 11:16, Mateusz Berezecki wrote: > Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -> The FTC issues are shared by many (most?) wireless drivers. The > -> copyright/trade secret issues might be worked around by basing the > -> work on the OpenBSD version of that driver (and someone is actually > -> working on that). > > the problem with openbsd version of the hal is that it is - sorry to > say that - fundamentally broken, at least it was last time I was > checking. It misses just too much functionality. Apart from that, the
What it can do? In particular, can it: * send packets with arbitrary contents? In particular, packets shorter than 3-address 802.11 header? packets with WEP bit set? Does it allow to do WEP encoding by host instead of hal? Any weird limitations? * receive packets? * tune to the given channel (or freq)? If it can do that, everything else IIRC can be done in software. Really, what prevents us from, say, beacons every 1/10s? > work I'm doing is partially based on that openbsd stuff :) > (no, this doesn't contradict what I wrote above) Nice to see you are in "release early" crowd. http://mateusz.agrest.org/atheros/: may I suggest using atheros-20050805 instead of atheros-08052005 (will maintain correct sorting order in 2006,2007...) -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
