From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262858AbVAFPQz (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:16:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262865AbVAFPQx (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:16:53 -0500 Received: from perpugilliam.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.31]:20408 "EHLO perpugilliam.csclub.uwaterloo.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262858AbVAFPQV (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:16:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:16:16 -0500 To: Andriy Korud Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Steve Hill , Netdev , Jean Tourrilhes , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, prism54-users@prism54.org, prism54-devel@prism54.org Subject: Re: [Prism54-devel] Re: [Prism54-users] Open hardware wireless cards Message-ID: <20050106151616.GC30311@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <60E856FD577CC04BA3727AF4122D3F161134B8@3bit.vector.com.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <60E856FD577CC04BA3727AF4122D3F161134B8@3bit.vector.com.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:34:02PM +0100, Andriy Korud wrote: > Sorry, as I know (no more details - NDA, sorry) some manufacturers are developing (and planning to continue) FullMAC 802.11g (and further) chipsets and also they are offering Linux drivers (however had no chance to test yet). > > But from my point of view, SoftMAC cards are better sometimes - you have more control from drivers and can implement some interesting features (for example, madwifi Linux driver with MAC layer ported from xBSD). > > Any thoughts why we should prefer FullMAC cards over SoftMAC (except CPU usage, of course)? Embedded systems with low end cpus (to make less heat and use less power) would prefer anything that uses less cpu and can be done in dedicated (and usually simpler than the cpu) hardware. Of course the windows laptop and desktop market probably far outsells the embedded market, for now at least. Len Sorensen