From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Henning Rogge <rogge@fgan.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Virtual wireless network card for mac80211
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:08:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071114150839.GA6226@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711141316.50393.rogge@fgan.de>
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, Henning Rogge wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to simulate a ieee802.11 card on a linux system. Is
> there an equivalent for tun/tap for the mac80211 layer, so I can just send
> the communication with a wireless device back to userspace (and data from
> userspace into the wireless stack) ?
No, but I have been thinking about this as well. It might be a nice
capability to have, so long as the regulatory spectre continues to
discourage some vendors from disclosing information about their
hardware. At least such a scenario seems less grey w.r.t. GPL
compliance.
Still, I would not want to put much effort into a project that
distracts from development of fully open source drivers. But I think
the performance of such a solution would be sub-optimal enough to
discourage full reliance upon it. And the plus of having a userland
binary driver versus no driver at all might make it worthwhile.
What is the situation that makes this interesting to you?
Thanks,
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-14 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-14 12:16 Virtual wireless network card for mac80211 Henning Rogge
2007-11-14 15:08 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-11-14 15:20 ` Henning Rogge
2007-11-14 15:30 ` John W. Linville
2007-11-14 15:27 ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-14 15:22 ` Johannes Berg
2007-11-14 15:59 ` Mike Kershaw
2007-11-15 6:46 ` Henning Rogge
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