From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751054AbVHaJY2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:24:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751385AbVHaJY2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:24:28 -0400 Received: from 167.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.167]:18127 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751054AbVHaJY1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:24:27 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: Mateusz Berezecki Subject: Re: Atheros and rt2x00 driver Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:23:35 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Florian Weimer , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" References: <6278d22205081711115b404a9b@mail.gmail.com> <87ll2ibkuk.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20050831081636.GA28280@oepkgtn.mshome.net> In-Reply-To: <20050831081636.GA28280@oepkgtn.mshome.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508311223.35304.vda@ilport.com.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 31 August 2005 11:16, Mateusz Berezecki wrote: > Florian Weimer wrote: > -> The FTC issues are shared by many (most?) wireless drivers. The > -> copyright/trade secret issues might be worked around by basing the > -> work on the OpenBSD version of that driver (and someone is actually > -> working on that). > > the problem with openbsd version of the hal is that it is - sorry to > say that - fundamentally broken, at least it was last time I was > checking. It misses just too much functionality. Apart from that, the What it can do? In particular, can it: * send packets with arbitrary contents? In particular, packets shorter than 3-address 802.11 header? packets with WEP bit set? Does it allow to do WEP encoding by host instead of hal? Any weird limitations? * receive packets? * tune to the given channel (or freq)? If it can do that, everything else IIRC can be done in software. Really, what prevents us from, say, beacons every 1/10s? > work I'm doing is partially based on that openbsd stuff :) > (no, this doesn't contradict what I wrote above) Nice to see you are in "release early" crowd. http://mateusz.agrest.org/atheros/: may I suggest using atheros-20050805 instead of atheros-08052005 (will maintain correct sorting order in 2006,2007...) -- vda