On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:32 +0900, 김영환 wrote: > in my case, chipset is an atheros and it used by mac80211, cfg80211. > > so... what is differ from '../net/ieee80211 driver? ieee80211 is an older quasi-softmac helper library (note that I didn't say "stack") that's used by the ipw2100, ipw2200, ipw2915, and ipw3945 drivers. ipw3945 has recently been replaced by iwl3945 which uses mac80211 instead. ieee80211 doesn't really do any 802.11 management stuff, it's really just a bunch of helpers and some code to encapsulate/decapsulate between 802.3 frames and 802.11 frames. The ipw2100, 2200, and 2915 are all half-mac; they do association, scanning, and some management duties in hardware, but the actual datapath is more softmac. mac80211 is a purely software 802.11 stack and does almost everything in software on the host CPU. Most new laptop-class 802.11 chipsets out today would need to use mac80211. Dan > > *^_^* > > > thanks~ > > > -- > -- > Have a Wonderful Day~~!! > 김영환 (James-Youngwhan Kim) > yhkim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > cs010101@xxxxxxxxx > +82-42-863-0340 > +82-10-6753-0987 > HTVC 3106 KAIST, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, > Daejon, Republic of Korea > 305-701 > > -- > 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 -- 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
