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From: Rami Rosen <ramirose@gmail.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Wireless stack presentation
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:22:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eb3ff54b0908200022mf4d2950v366c82698dfe440b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890908200012x23b7773dvf215676726a514e5@mail.gmail.com>

Luis,
First, thanks for your quick response.

> * Ditch iwconfig and refer to iw

I do mention also iw; for example, in slide 70, slide 111.
My impression is that both set of tools, wireless-tools and iw, will
coexist for the next
near future and maybe beyond.


> * ath5k/ath9k do not have any firmware burned onto any "ROM", the
> devices just do not require software, everything is done by the driver

Thanks for the info!

Regards,
Rami Rosen


On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Rami Rosen<ramirose@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>>  I am giving on Thursday next week a lecture about the Linux Kernel
>> Wireless stack in a
>> Linux User Group in Herzelia (Israel).
>>
>>  The slides are available online now, so I thought some of you might
>> be interested
>> to take a look; the presentation is very detailed (over 110 pages).
>>
>> see:
>> http://tuxology.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/wirelessLecHerzelinux.pdf
>
> A few comments:
>
> * Ditch iwconfig and refer to iw
> * ath5k/ath9k do not have any firmware burned onto any "ROM", the
> devices just do not require software, everything is done by the driver
>
>   Luis
>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-20  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-20  7:02 Linux Kernel Wireless stack presentation Rami Rosen
2009-08-20  7:12 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-20  7:22   ` Rami Rosen [this message]
2009-08-20  7:31     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-08-20  9:22 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-20 10:14   ` Rami Rosen
2009-08-25 10:29   ` Rami Rosen
2009-08-25 10:37     ` Johannes Berg

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