Subject: Re: Broadcom 43xx first results
From: Michael Renzmann <netdev@nospam.otaku42.de>
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To: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
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       bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
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Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:14:03 +0100
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Hi.

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 19:00 +0100, Jiri Benc wrote:
> Why yet another attempt to write 802.11 stack? Sure, the one currently
> in the kernel is unusable and everybody knows about it. But why not to
> improve code opensourced by Devicescape some time ago instead of
> inventing the wheel again and again?

Or, in case there is some unknown objection to the mentioned code: use
the 802.11 stack that comes along with MadWifi, which provides things
like virtual interfaces (for multiple SSID support on one physical card)
and WPA support.

Although I'm a bit biased towards MadWifi, I'd second your suggestion to
make use of the Devicescape code. The benefit of having a fully-blown
802.11 stack in the kernel that drivers can make use of has been
discussed before, so I won't go into that yet again.

Bye, Mike

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