On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 18:15 +0400, Dmitry wrote: > 2008/7/31 Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 22:51 +0000, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'd like to work on the Prism2 USB driver (currently maintained as a part of > >> wlan-ng project) to be able to push it into mainline. The card itself is > >> a FullMAC card. Where should I start? What parts of 802.11 stacks/API > >> should I use? There is plenty of information regarding SoftMAC drivers, > >> but no clear pointers for developing drivers for the FullMAC cards. > > > > If you're talking about the same hardware that linux-wlan-ng supported > > (ie, what Ubuntu ships as prism2_usb) then that hardware can be softmac, > > actually. We discussed this a while ago and agreed that a completely > > new mac80211-based driver for this hardware was the best way to go, > > rather than trying to stuff USB support into hostap. > > Yes, I was talking about prism2_usb cards. I'll explore how to switch it to > the softmac. prism2_usb already uses p80211, which is a softmac stack. So the cards are already being driven in softmac mode. You basically just have to write a mac80211 driver for the hardware and ignore p80211 completely. 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
