From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from a83-132-36-246.cpe.netcabo.pt ([83.132.36.246]:42249 "EHLO taurus.digitalself.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751395AbXG3MlX (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:41:23 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux wireless stack question From: Alfredo Matos To: Johannes Berg Cc: maali Al Janoob , tomasw@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1185795198.4006.89.camel@johannes.berg> References: <1185795198.4006.89.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:08:30 +0100 Message-Id: <1185797310.12159.2.camel@pegasus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 18:21 +0400, maali Al Janoob wrote: > > > What I want to do basically is changing the backoff algorithm to implement a > > modified protocol in Linux (for my thesis). From what I know, the firmware > > is inaccessible. Are you aware of any available source code for a firmware > > of any driver? > > Nope, none freely available. There are some efforts (prism54, bcm43xx) > to write free firmware for some devices, but none of them are in a stage > that could be used. (prism54: dunno, but I know it's not usable; > bcm43xx: only partially reverse engineered) > What about atheros dadwifi [1] and openHAL [2] ? Could this help ? Alfredo. [1] - http://madwifi.org/wiki/DadWifi [2] - http://madwifi.org/wiki/OpenHAL