On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:52:14AM +0800, colin wrote: > I have used two 802.11x wireless usb devices successfully on MIPS platform. > One is realtek 8187 and the other one is ralink 2571. > I would like to put them into kernel tree and then I found that there are > not many 802.11x devices supported in Linux. If you want to submit a driver to the kernel, please post it to netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Don't expect a driver to be just accepted; it will go through a thorough review and after all the issues have been resolved it will be accepted. > Moreover, there is no any wireless usb device supported. Wireless support under Linux is suffering from several problems: o some core require microcode to be loaded but the vendor does not give such permission. o lack of documentation, sometimes for paranoid or bogus legal reasons or "intellectual property" concerns. At times it really seems vendors are working to maximize pain for the user ... > It is also very strange that 8187 and 2571 both have their own ieee802.11x > stack and crypt drivers. It seems that Linux doesn't offer them. > I am wondering why Linux is so complex in 802.11x. Well, for one thing because 802.11 is complex. The Linux wireless support has gone through several generations; some of the wireless work was for one or the other reason never integrated in the kernel.org kernel. Ralf
