Re: State of the Union: Wireless

On Friday 06 January 2006 13:31, Johannes Berg wrote:

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:00 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:

quoted

* "master" interface as real device node
* Virtual interfaces (net_devices)

I didn't want to spam the netdev wiki with this (yet) so I collected
some more structured things outside. Anyone feel free to edit:
http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/802.11

I am confused.

There is
http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/softmac-snapshot.tar.bz2
at http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/SoftMAC,
page also says "Projects using this layer: * Broadcom 43xx driver"

but Broadcom driver page at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/softmac/
has ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/softmac/ieee80211softmac-20060107.tar.bz2
which is not the same. For example, ieee80211softmac.h file exists in both
tarballs but is not identical.

Suppose one wants to use softmac in a project. What tarball contains
the bleeding edge of softmac?

I'll move that content to the netdev wiki if anyone else thinks it would
be a good way forward to start with requirements, API issues and
similar.

Until we get there, we'll fix up softmac to make it usable for most
people in basic station mode without any kind of virtual devices, which
will need some slight changes to the current ieee80211.

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vda