On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:42 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: >> On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 14:27 +0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > >> > What is the 11n configuration on these devices? Do they have 2 >> > streams? Or are they just 1 stream? >> >> It has 1x1, 1x2 and 2x2 on for both 20MHz and 40MHz channels. The >> firmware HT support is not quite ready at this point. So we haven't done >> anything 11n related in the driver yet. > > I have small question: > > This is a fullmac driver, thus if I understand correctly, it behaves on > the outside more like an Ethernet adapter. > This will mean that many things possible with normal softmac card won't > be possible, like sending raw packets, etc... > (and besides I belive that hardware is more or less the same, but more > functionality is pushed down to firmware, and more firmware code equals > to bigger probability of bugs that aren't possible to triage and solve > easily. > > Does this device indicate that intel moves away from softmac devices, or > this is a device that will mostly be used in some dedicated market > sector (embedded devices for example)? > > > Best regards, > Maxim Levitsky > Probably it is fullmac because it is for embedded platforms. That's also what it being an SDIO device suggests. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
