Hi,
I ported the bcm43xx driver (http://bcm43xx.berlios.de) to the
devicescape ieee802.11 stack.
This port is a project branch, so softmac is still supported
and developed.
bcm43xx now supports software-side encryption functionality.
(The hardware supports encryption, but that's not completely
implemented, yet)
I use the driver in my AES-WPA encrypted network and it works
very well. Many things have been fixed in the past few days.
The devicescape stack is still in development and it currently
has an ugly user-inferface. The maintainer is working on cleanups,
so please _do_ _not_ complain about dscape being crap. :)
(We have enough stupid flamewars on lkml, at the moment)
It is indeed very good code, but the user interface is a little
bit ugly at the moment.
Because of the user-interface, it is also a little bit more
difficult to bring the device up. But I wrote a
horribly ugly bash script (sta_up.sh) to do most of the work
for you. Attached is HOWTO, with more details how to get
it working.
Good luck.
Thanks for everyone supporting us! You are a great community.
--
Greetings Michael.