From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: maali Al Janoob <mms82@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question for developers (help plzz!!)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:18:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1187345926.23489.151.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY111-F25D952C7E01CC8CB5A47B2B6DF0@phx.gbl>
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On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 00:54 +0400, maali Al Janoob wrote:
> I came to know thorugh this mailing list that those two chipsets might not
> require a firmware, and that gave me hope in finding all the 802.11
> functionalities in the open source driver codes,
Heh. No, that most likely just means that the stuff was in hardware or
the firmware is on a ROM.
> Aside from this, if any one is aware of any chipset that implements ALL
> 802.11 funcitonalities in open source software, please save me with it.
Nope. I don't think there's one, it just doesn't make sense to implement
the backoff algorithm in software because it's too timing sensitive.
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-17 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-16 20:54 question for developers (help plzz!!) maali Al Janoob
2007-08-17 10:18 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2007-08-17 11:49 ` maali Al Janoob
2007-08-17 11:49 ` maali Al Janoob
2007-08-20 10:44 ` Johannes Berg
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