On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:53:25PM +0100, Javi Roman wrote: > Summary of development tendency: > > Two offcial (in-kernel tree) lines: > > 1. ieee802.11 generic networking stack without SoftMac support: > http://ieee80211.sourceforge.net/ > 2. ieee80211 softmac layer support for generic networking support: > http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/ No, only one line. As far as I understand SoftMac is below ieee802.11. SoftMac basically does what firmware did in older wireless cards: association, scanning, etc. > Two populars out-of-tree stacks: > > 1. 802.11 DeviceScape complete stack (with full softmac support) : > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jbenc/ That's the one that is supposed to replace SoftMac. > 2. MadWifi 802.11 stack from FreeBSD for Atheros chipsets (with full > softmac support): http://madwifi.org/wiki/DevDocs MadWifi will probably never be merged because it basically is a wrapper around a binary-only module (the Atheros HAL). Same for ndiswrapper and driverloader. Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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