Re: State of the Union: Wireless

[Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>]

On Friday 06 January 2006 13:31, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:00 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote:
> 
> > * "master" interface as real device node
> > * Virtual interfaces (net_devices)
> 
> I didn't want to spam the netdev wiki with this (yet) so I collected
> some more structured things outside. Anyone feel free to edit:
> http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/802.11

I am confused.

There is
http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/softmac-snapshot.tar.bz2
at http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/SoftMAC,
page also says "Projects using this layer: * Broadcom 43xx driver"

but Broadcom driver page at ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/softmac/
has ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/softmac/ieee80211softmac-20060107.tar.bz2
which is not the same. For example, ieee80211softmac.h file exists in both
tarballs but is not identical.

Suppose one wants to use softmac in a project. What tarball contains
the bleeding edge of softmac?

> I'll move that content to the netdev wiki if anyone else thinks it would
> be a good way forward to start with requirements, API issues and
> similar.
> 
> Until we get there, we'll fix up softmac to make it usable for most
> people in basic station mode without any kind of virtual devices, which
> will need some slight changes to the current ieee80211.
--
vda