Thank you so much for the reply. My advisor is not very convinced with this
answer, and says that there must be somewhere a linux driver that has an
open source firmware for protocol development purposes, or a driver that
implements everything in software. So, firstly, can I please ask you for
some references affirming your answer that I can include in my research? and
secondly, are you aware of any attempt in the open source firmware
direction?
Assuming that there is no way I can access the backoff algorithm in any of
the commercial wireless cards, what would be the solution to my case then? I
need to modify the backoff algorithm for my masters thesis, and if this is
not possible with any card, what should I do?!
Thank you
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: maali Al Janoob <mms82@xxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: question for developers (help plzz!!)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:18:46 +0200
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 00:54 +0400, maali Al Janoob wrote:
> I came to know thorugh this mailing list that those two chipsets might
not
> require a firmware, and that gave me hope in finding all the 802.11
> functionalities in the open source driver codes,
Heh. No, that most likely just means that the stuff was in hardware or
the firmware is on a ROM.
> Aside from this, if any one is aware of any chipset that implements ALL
> 802.11 funcitonalities in open source software, please save me with it.
Nope. I don't think there's one, it just doesn't make sense to implement
the backoff algorithm in software because it's too timing sensitive.
johannes
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