Re: Atheros and rt2x00 driver

From: Denis Vlasenko (vda_at_ilport.com.ua)
Date: 08/31/05

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    To: Mateusz Berezecki <mateuszb@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:23:35 +0300

    On Wednesday 31 August 2005 11:16, Mateusz Berezecki wrote:
    > Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
    > -> The FTC issues are shared by many (most?) wireless drivers. The
    > -> copyright/trade secret issues might be worked around by basing the
    > -> work on the OpenBSD version of that driver (and someone is actually
    > -> working on that).
    >
    > the problem with openbsd version of the hal is that it is - sorry to
    > say that - fundamentally broken, at least it was last time I was
    > checking. It misses just too much functionality. Apart from that, the

    What it can do? In particular, can it:
    * send packets with arbitrary contents? In particular, packets
      shorter than 3-address 802.11 header? packets with WEP bit set?
      Does it allow to do WEP encoding by host instead of hal?
      Any weird limitations?
    * receive packets?
    * tune to the given channel (or freq)?

    If it can do that, everything else IIRC can be done in software.
    Really, what prevents us from, say, beacons every 1/10s?

    > work I'm doing is partially based on that openbsd stuff :)
    > (no, this doesn't contradict what I wrote above)

    Nice to see you are in "release early" crowd.

    http://mateusz.agrest.org/atheros/:
    may I suggest using atheros-20050805 instead of atheros-08052005
    (will maintain correct sorting order in 2006,2007...) 

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vda
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