Re: Driver for the FullMAC card

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 11:19 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 10:24 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I don't think p80211 is a softmac stack.  It's just a thin layer for
> 802.11 packet manipulation.  There were some talks about splitting
> lib80211 from mac80211 so that FullMAC cards could make use of the
> existing code.  p80211 is something of that kind.
> 
> Prism USB is not much different from other Prism cards.  Sure, it needs
> packet interface for communicating to the device, but it associates on
> its own.
> 
> I asked Jouni if HostAP could be converted to SoftMAC, and his answer
> was that it may be a good AP but a poor station (sorry I cannot find it
> in the archives).  The same would apply to Prism USB.

Guess I misunderstood the scope of p80211 then.  So the prism2 usb stuff
really is fullmac then?  Or at least quasi-mac like the ipw2x00 cards?

Dan