Re: Driver for the FullMAC card

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 18:15 +0400, Dmitry wrote:
> 2008/7/31 Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 22:51 +0000, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'd like to work on the Prism2 USB driver (currently maintained as a part of
> >> wlan-ng project) to be able to push it into mainline. The card itself is
> >> a FullMAC card. Where should I start? What parts of 802.11 stacks/API
> >> should I use? There is plenty of information regarding SoftMAC drivers,
> >> but no clear pointers for developing drivers for the FullMAC cards.
> >
> > If you're talking about the same hardware that linux-wlan-ng supported
> > (ie, what Ubuntu ships as prism2_usb) then that hardware can be softmac,
> > actually.  We discussed this a while ago and agreed that a completely
> > new mac80211-based driver for this hardware was the best way to go,
> > rather than trying to stuff USB support into hostap.
> 
> Yes, I was talking about prism2_usb cards. I'll explore how to switch it to
> the softmac.

prism2_usb already uses p80211, which is a softmac stack.  So the cards
are already being driven in softmac mode.  You basically just have to
write a mac80211 driver for the hardware and ignore p80211 completely.

Dan