Subject: Re: Virtual wireless network card for mac80211
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Henning Rogge <rogge@fgan.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:22:43 +0100
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> I'm looking for a way to simulate a ieee802.11 card on a linux system. Is=
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> there an equivalent for tun/tap for the mac80211 layer, so I can just sen=
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> the communication with a wireless device back to userspace (and data from=
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> userspace into the wireless stack) ?

No. I've described this task on
http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects/Mac80211TestDriver and somebody
was interested in writing one, but I never heard back from him.

johannes

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