On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 11:19 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > 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. Guess I misunderstood the scope of p80211 then. So the prism2 usb stuff really is fullmac then? Or at least quasi-mac like the ipw2x00 cards? 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
