On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sean Robinson <seankrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> What is a station? > > You got an answer already. But in principle all devices supporting > IEEE 802.11 are stations (or STAs) in the standard. > >> How does a station relate to an AP? > > AP is a station as are all clients. > >> ÂWhat are the delineations between mac80211/cfg80211/nl80211? > > mac80211 is an IEEE 802.11 stack for softmac devices. > > cfg80211 is a new (relatively speaking) component for managing > configuration of IEEE 802.11 devices (used by both mac80211 and > fullmac device drivers). > > nl80211 is a new (again relatively speaking) netlink based user space > interface (protocol?) for managing IEEE 802.11 devices. cfg80211 > implements the kernel side of this interface. From user space at least > wpasupplicant and iw use this interface, but in principle any > application can use it. > Thank you, Kalle. I have updated the Glossary page with my interpretation of your answers. And, thank you, Daniel. I downloaded the IEEE doc. While the definitions are useful, the chapter 5 overview of how everything is related was really helpful. And I repeat my intent to curate the Glossary for a while. So, if anyone else has terms to add or that need a fuller explanation, please let me know. -- Sean Robinson WiFi Radar - http://wifi-radar.berlios.de Python WiFi - http://pythonwifi.wikispot.org pymnl - http://pymnl.wikispot.org -- 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
