On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, Henning Rogge wrote: > I'm looking for a way to simulate a ieee802.11 card on a linux system. Is > there an equivalent for tun/tap for the mac80211 layer, so I can just send > the communication with a wireless device back to userspace (and data from > userspace into the wireless stack) ? No, but I have been thinking about this as well. It might be a nice capability to have, so long as the regulatory spectre continues to discourage some vendors from disclosing information about their hardware. At least such a scenario seems less grey w.r.t. GPL compliance. Still, I would not want to put much effort into a project that distracts from development of fully open source drivers. But I think the performance of such a solution would be sub-optimal enough to discourage full reliance upon it. And the plus of having a userland binary driver versus no driver at all might make it worthwhile. What is the situation that makes this interesting to you? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
