acxsm: migrate acx from homegrown 802.11 handling to softmac stack

acxsm: migrate acx from homegrown 802.11 handling to softmac stack

[Denis Vlasenko]

Hi,

http://195.66.192.167/linux/acx_patches/acxsm-20060115.tar.bz2

README says:
==================
*** Not run tested. Almost certainly won't work. Lots of things are TODO. ***

This tarball contains a port of acx driver to ieee80211softmac
stack. Broadcom 43xx driver was used as an example.
See http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/,
ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/bcm43xx/snapshots/

Latest softmac source is in softmac-snapshot/ and net/
is a symling to softmac-snapshot/include/net/.
softmac-snapshot/ is to be replaced regularly with newer
snapshots from http://softmac.sipsolutions.net/SoftMAC.

grep for '//SM' to see the code added to standalone acx driver code.
...
...
===================

This is it.

P.S. It does not mean that acx driver is discontinued.
It will be supported as before. Let's see whether acxsm
will get any traction at all.
--
vda


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Re: acxsm: migrate acx from homegrown 802.11 handling to softmac stack

[Carlos Martín]

On Sunday 15 January 2006 12:52, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://195.66.192.167/linux/acx_patches/acxsm-20060115.tar.bz2

I've mirrored it at http://www.cmartin.tk/acx/ and will sync as with the 
'normal' tarballs.

> 
> README says:
> ==================
> *** Not run tested. Almost certainly won't work. Lots of things are TODO.

I'll try to try it out this week. Unfortunately, my USB device is broken 
again.
 
> P.S. It does not mean that acx driver is discontinued.
> It will be supported as before. Let's see whether acxsm
> will get any traction at all.
             at^^^^^^^^
You mean it won't slip when the road is wet? :P
This should make certain things easier to handle, won't it? From what I've 
seen you don't have to worry about fragmentation of packets. Will the stack 
also handle TKPI/WPA?
 
   cmn
-- 
Carlos Martín       http://www.cmartin.tk

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Re: Re: acxsm: migrate acx from homegrown 802.11 handling to softmac stack

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Sunday 15 January 2006 20:29, Carlos Martín wrote:
> On Sunday 15 January 2006 12:52, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > http://195.66.192.167/linux/acx_patches/acxsm-20060115.tar.bz2
> 
> I've mirrored it at http://www.cmartin.tk/acx/ and will sync as with the 
> 'normal' tarballs.
> 
> > 
> > README says:
> > ==================
> > *** Not run tested. Almost certainly won't work. Lots of things are TODO.
> 
> I'll try to try it out this week. Unfortunately, my USB device is broken 
> again.

It's not ready for actual usage, but code review would be appreciated.
I am trying to keep acxsm close enough to acx so that "diff -urp acx acxsm"
will give good idea about the differences.

> > P.S. It does not mean that acx driver is discontinued.
> > It will be supported as before. Let's see whether acxsm
> > will get any traction at all.
>              at^^^^^^^^
> You mean it won't slip when the road is wet? :P
> This should make certain things easier to handle, won't it? From what I've 
> seen you don't have to worry about fragmentation of packets. Will the stack 
> also handle TKPI/WPA?

Stack is meant to eventually handle all bells and whistles.
The first important missing thing is AP mode. There is softmac'ish
AP mode implementation in Devicescape stack...
--
vda


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