> -----Original Message----- > From: Luis R. Rodriguez [mailto:mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 5:16 PM > To: Heyendal, Carl > Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: wireless in linux > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Heyendal, Carl > <CHeyendal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'm a somewhat of a newbie to Linux. So far I have been > impressed with the information that I have been able to > readily find to get things done in Linux amongst all the > reference books, on-line tutorials, and various Linux > communities. However wireless in Linux has been a different story. > > > > A few weeks ago I was asked to provide wireless > functionality for an embedded system. A simple USB wireless > adapter to connect to an access point was all. I thought it > shouldn't be too much of a challenge. However adding wireless > capability has truly been a formidable challenge. I'm still > not there yet. I'm staring right now at the latest > wpa_supplicant readme with all the choices that I need to > make. I'll be lucky if it works. It's really been a > piece-meal effort so far. > > > > The only information I can find is very limited to it's > context and is geared to individuals who have intimate > knowledge of Linux wireless. How does one get up to speed > with wireless-linux with the apparent lack of good general > information regarding what's needed in a wireless linux kernel? > > > > Are there any reference books, tutorials, howto's, wireless > enabled kernels...anything that someone can point me to that > would help? > > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Linux+wireless > > Luis > > Yes. Ha-ha. To bad there's nothing good out there for newbs. -- 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
