hi sushil! try any board which has good support in OpenWRT, e.g. the RouterStation Pro - which is what we are using here for a commercial mac80211 + ath5k based mesh routing device. bruno On Mon September 6 2010 14:12:56 Sushil DUTT wrote: > Friends, > > I saw in this thread that Athreos Ath9k is based on mac80211. Any idea, > from where I can get this development kit? This kit seems perfect for my > WLAN solution:) > > To give a background about my project, > Our lab has developed a WLAN solution which shows better results(in > comaprision of mkt available solutions) in simulation. Now my job is to > embedd & prove this solution in a stable hardware environment. I need a > platform with SDK which can support both AP & Station. Reference > application is highly desirable to reduce my development time. > > Thanks in advance for your responses. > > > Thanks & Regards, > Sushil Dutt > Centre for Communications Engineering Research > School of Engineering > Edith Cowan University > 100 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup WA 6027, Australia. > Telephone: (61 8) 6304 5318 or (61 8) 6304 5458 > Fax: (61 8) 6304 5811 > > > ________________________________________ > From: linux-wireless-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [linux-wireless-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Gábor Stefanik > [netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2010 7:29 AM > To: Björn Smedman > Cc: Bob Copeland; jpo; linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Luis R. Rodriguez > Subject: Re: mac80211-based commercial router? > > 2010/9/6 Björn Smedman <bjorn.smedman@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > 2010/9/6 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:43 PM, jpo <pommnitz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> Android 2.2 comes with AP functionality. Are the Android WLAN drivers > >>>> mac80211 based? > >>> > >>> No, they aren't. Does Android really do AP mode or > >>> just adhoc? > >>> > >>> wl1251 is an in-tree module for the TI chip used in G1, > >>> but it doesn't support AP mode. I do not know if there's > >>> a mac80211 driver that supports the broadcom chip used > >>> in other phones. > >> > >> AFAIK BCM4325 should be doable, especially if it is attached via SDIO > >> bus. In phones where SPI is used, it is more problematic, as b43 > >> doesn't support SPI. > > > > I guess the short answer is no then; all the chip vendors still focus > > on their own proprietary mac implementations, at least on the AP side. > > Any thoughts on what would be required for them to switch to mac80211? > > Will it ever happen? > > > > /Björn > > AFAIK, the status is the following: > -Atheros: Ath9k is officially supported and recommended by Atheros, > and is usable for an AP - indeed, I believe Atheros is the first and > only company to officially support a mac80211 driver AND make chipsets > for APs. AFAIK, for the AR9002 family, no other Linux driver is > available (at least not wit 802.11n support). Once we begin seeing > AR9002-based APs with Linux firmware, chances are they will have a > mac80211 driver inside. CCing Luis on this one. > -Broadcom: they refuse to even acknowledge (maybe with the exception > of legal threats) the development of b43, and supply binary drivers > (and a 2.4-series kernel) in their platform kits. Also, b43 is way > behind time when it comes to HW support (it doesn't support N-PHY, > which is the norm now), and usually when APs begin shipping wiht a new > Broadcom chipset, b43 still doesn't support that chipset until much > later. I don't know about APs that include a Broadcom CPU but an > Atheros wireless chip - AFAIK some do exist, but all use madwifi or > some variant. > -Ralink: Again, platform kits contain non-mac80211 drivers, even for > recent chipsets (at least they are open-source, though). Someone > should find a way to make them base drivers for the eventual RT4xxx > (?) chipsets on the rt2x00 framework. > -Marvell: No idea. > -Realtek: Same situation as Ralink. > > And some embedded Linux vendors: > -MontaVista: I believe they are still using 2.4.x kernels (though I've > heard of MontaVista-based routers with 2.6.8 - but even that one is > way too old for mac80211.) > -MikroTik: AFAIK RouterOS contains binary drivers with no relation to > their open-source counterparts. They even named their Atheros driver > "ath5k" IIRC, ignoring the in-tree driver with the same name! Plus, > even if it had mac80211-based drivers, it wouldn't matter, since there > is no (legal) way to access a Unix shell in RouterOS; instead it uses > a proprietary "configuration shell" apparently inspired by Cisco IOS > and ZyNOS. > > -- > 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-- > 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 -- 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
