From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:50026 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756392AbXHQKP6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:15:58 -0400 Subject: Re: question for developers (help plzz!!) From: Johannes Berg To: maali Al Janoob Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-gQ3234jZP3Zmm9rn1lCn" Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:18:46 +0200 Message-Id: <1187345926.23489.151.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-gQ3234jZP3Zmm9rn1lCn Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 no= t=20 > require a firmware, and that gave me hope in finding all the 802.11=20 > 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=20 > 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 --=-gQ3234jZP3Zmm9rn1lCn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBGxXYG/ETPhpq3jKURAhhhAJ4mol4MiVjJGOeckFUSYlkdUR81uACeLGUx /WXIjCuBfonAQ+cBSsxrhik= =lgLB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-gQ3234jZP3Zmm9rn1lCn--