From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivo van Doorn Subject: Re: Streamline testing of 802.11 drivers Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:38:26 +0200 Message-ID: <200606232338.26801.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <43e72e890606231333kd0fc534x5d08dad955d13bf5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart6262131.lEPzy2ipX4"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, zd1211-devs@lists.sourceforge.net, "Ivan Seskar" , "Kishore Ramachandran" Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:65443 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752089AbWFWVeO (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:34:14 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so271819nfc for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:34:12 -0700 (PDT) To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" In-Reply-To: <43e72e890606231333kd0fc534x5d08dad955d13bf5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --nextPart6262131.lEPzy2ipX4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi, > I've mentioned this to a few but here it is out to everyone. So as you > know we have a lot of work ahead of us for linux wireless development. > To help speed this up, we at Winlab, would like to start hosting a > testbed for linux wireless development, open to the public. Short term > goals would be to start off a couple of nodes for each driver > currently under development like bcm43xx, zd1211, rt2x00, ipw3945, > ipw2200 and the like, and a provide a set streamlined tests we can use > to really put to test the drivers and stacks. This would be really interesting. :) > This wouldn't be easy if we didn't have infrastructure but we already > do. Our grid consists of 400 nodes with 2 wireless cards each and 3 > ethernet ports (one for control) -- > http://orbit-lab.org/wiki/Tutorial/Testbed. 90% of our nodes use the > atheros 5213 chipset and the rest ipw2200s. We'd like to expand this > with the more wireless cards currently being worked on for linux. >=20 > Right now we have zome zd1211s so we'll start with that (I'll start > working on a port to d80211) but will try to accomodate other nodes as > we get more wireless cards. We will need some help too though, to > streamline the testing. If you have ideas or would like to contribute > please let me know. We can purchase wireless cards but if you already > have reliable confirmed wireless cards which can be used for putting > into the testbed let me know. I'll discuss this in the rt2x00 team, and see if we can donate some hardware. Ivo --nextPart6262131.lEPzy2ipX4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEnF9SaqndE37Em0gRAo2aAJ9MUZ5AaWXxr1neAV9tLWErKU5eqwCg5Aee /2SeoskPofkQ7Z6Hm3P8t8s= =8kXN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart6262131.lEPzy2ipX4--