Hi, Intel would like to announce the Linux driver for the Wifi part of the wireless multicomm 3200 product, which will be availabe in early 2010. This is a fullmac device. So we are creating a new iwmc3200wifi driver instead of extending the haredware support in the current (softmac based) iwlwifi driver. These two drivers should be independent. The iwmc3200wifi driver currently supports IEEE 802.11a/b/g (draft N is still working in progress) in managed and ad-hoc modes. As a fullmac device, iwmc3200wifi receives 802.11 frames from an upper MAC firmware (UMAC) running on the target. Those frames are validated by Rx tickets, converted to 802.3 frames, and then sent upstream (see rx.c). On the transmit path, the driver synchronizes the flow control with the UMAC through a set of tx credits (see tx.c). This device currently runs on an SDIO bus, and we tried to clearly separate the bus related operations from the rest of the code through an if_ops structure definition (see sdio.c). Finally, this driver exposes itself as a wiphy device. We're trying to comply and follow the cfg80211 API as much as we can, although this part of the code is very likely to grow as this API evolves (see cfg80211.c). WEXT API is also supported for backward compatibility (see wext.c). [PATCH 1/2] wireless: move some utility functions from mac80211 to cfg80211 [PATCH 2/2] iwmc3200wifi: Add new Intel Wireless Multicomm 802.11 driver Patches are also available from: http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/patches/iwmc3200wifi/ Thanks, -yi -- 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
