On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:34:29 -0500, Brian Kimmel wrote: > The senior project for my computer engineering degree is to implement a > new medium access protocol, that our professor has developed, on an > 802.11 wireless network card as a replacement for CSMA/CA. The paper > describing it is entitled "Cooperative Medium Access Protocol for Dense > Wireless Networks" by Coskun Cetinkaya and Fatma Orsun. > > What we need to determine is what card it is feasible to disable the > current access protocol and implement the new protocol, preferably in a > kernel driver. I would appreciate any advice that you might have. I happened to stumble upon this the other day: <URL: http://wifinetnews.com/archives/003972.html> which leads to: <URL: http://www.smallworks.com/archives/00000072.htm> which says: "Many have noted that I am a fan of the chipsets from Atheros, but few have ever queried 'Why'. (Nigel Ballard did once, at a PTP meeting where I spoke the day after leaving Vivato.) The reason 'Why' is that the Atheros chipsets do not implement the 802.11 MAC protocol. It is straight-forward to implement your own MAC layer on top of the Atheros design, and the madwifi driver proves it." I don't have an Atheros chipset card so I don't know how true this is - but that is/should be a starting point. Cheers, Anand -- linux.conf.au 2005 - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Birthplace of Tux April 18th to 23rd - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - LINUX Canberra, Australia - http://lca2005.linux.org.au/ - Get bitten! - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
