On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:24 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > 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. I don't think p80211 is a softmac stack. It's just a thin layer for 802.11 packet manipulation. There were some talks about splitting lib80211 from mac80211 so that FullMAC cards could make use of the existing code. p80211 is something of that kind. Prism USB is not much different from other Prism cards. Sure, it needs packet interface for communicating to the device, but it associates on its own. I asked Jouni if HostAP could be converted to SoftMAC, and his answer was that it may be a good AP but a poor station (sorry I cannot find it in the archives). The same would apply to Prism USB. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin -- 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
