On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:52:00PM -0700, greg chesson wrote:

Vladimir Kondratiev wrote:

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Greg,
you missed one important point. Besides data packets, that every driver 
now convert .11<->.3 using almost the same code, there is whole story of 
management. Many modern cards are "softmac" and do all management on host. 
I see no point for every driver to implement its own scanning and 
association. 

Yes, Quite right.  No disagreement.
It is standard practice on NDIS and Apple Darwin that a common GUI-based
application controls scanning, association, and manages 
keys+authentication+crypto.

Linux does the same thing (driver is configured by application code)
 although there does not yet exist a single app
that can serve as a common point of control for multiple vendor drivers.
I believe that achieving that goal is the real payoff for wireless Linux 
users.

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RFC: what are the chances we can implement our own generic "softmac" that may
be usable by the different chipsets out there?

	Luis

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