Intel 5150 with arm box

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On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 20:07 +0400, Dark SavanT wrote:
> hi. 
> 
> 
> Can I use Intel wimax/wifi link 5150 with my arm-linux system? And can
> someone explain me what is wimax supplicant binary and for which
> purposes it needs.

Yes, you can, but also no, you can't.  The current Intel WiMAX stack is
composed of:

1) kernel driver
2) kernel WiMAX subsystem
3) userspace control daemon
4) userspace authentication supplicant

1 - 3 are open-source and thus can be built easily for ARM.  #4 is not
open-source, and is not built for ARM.  #4 is not even built for x86-64.
The supplicant is necessary to authenticate yourself to the WiMAX
network.  Intel has stated that they are working on an open-source
version of the binary-only supplicant, but they've been saying that for
more than 6 months now...

Dan





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