From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262623AbVAEWeH (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:34:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262625AbVAEWeG (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:34:06 -0500 Received: from 3bit.vector.com.pl ([81.210.9.37]:28958 "EHLO 3bit.vector.com.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262623AbVAEWeE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2005 17:34:04 -0500 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: RE: [Prism54-devel] Re: [Prism54-users] Open hardware wireless cards MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:34:02 +0100 Message-ID: <60E856FD577CC04BA3727AF4122D3F161134B8@3bit.vector.com.pl> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [Prism54-devel] Re: [Prism54-users] Open hardware wireless cards Thread-Index: AcTzZlCkwLK6ZQ9pT36HT8ksJlpIgwADzxad From: "Andriy Korud" To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Steve Hill" Cc: "Netdev" , "Jean Tourrilhes" , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , "Jeff Garzik" , , , Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > AFAICT the FullMAC chipsets have reached the END OF LIFE period. 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)? regards, -- Andriy Korud