On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 12:51 +0100, Patrick Ziegler wrote: > Hi, > > is there any support for Wimax network cards in the kernel yet ? No, unless those cards work like broadband cellular cards and just present a USB serial interface to the kernel. I haven't been able to get a hold of WiMAX parts yet (preferably 802.16e-2005 mobile wimax parts like the Airspan MiMAX USB) not that I've tried extremely hard. > is this the right mailing list for this topic ? Probably for now, yes. > is someone working on a Wimax integration ? I've been thinking about WiMAX for quite a while, but only recently have real cards started to appear. My fear is that with WiMAX, Linux will be where it was with 802.11 3 years ago. No hardware support, no vendor support, nothing. The problem with WiMAX is that many operators have _licensed_ spectrum for WiMAX. The software stack is more complicated, and vendors may put more and more software on the host rather than in firmware. However, since software stack will deal with things like QoS in licensed spectrum and whatnot, vendors may close the stack and do things like binary blobs linked to the kernel module, or things like the old IPW regulatory daemon. Not sure how to avoid that. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
