Return-path: Received: from s131.mittwaldmedien.de ([62.216.178.31]:20896 "EHLO s131.mittwaldmedien.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756177AbYBGNfZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 08:35:25 -0500 From: Holger Schurig To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Getting Started Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:35:17 +0100 References: <912ec82a0802070511y734f9836q244abb7800210961@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <912ec82a0802070511y734f9836q244abb7800210961@mail.gmail.com> Cc: "Neshama Parhoti" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200802071435.17254.hs4233@mail.mn-solutions.de> (sfid-20080207_133529_614669_B6A54633) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Can you please point me to known good knowledge > references/overviews/tutorials on the subject ? Get a linux kernel via git. Look at the drivers in drivers/net/wireless. Some of them use mac80211, you can find out which one by looking at Kconfig there, e.g. when they have a line "depends on MAC80211" there. Those existing drivers should be a great inspiration to you :-) It also helps when you share more about your incentives. E.g. writing > I'm about to write a new driver for mac80211. doesn't give a great deal of insight into what you're up to. Maybe someone else already begin to write a driver for your hardware ?!?! No one can tell you this right now, so you can't possibly save work on your side. For example, the openmoko people are writing a mac80211 driver for ar6k. Not every driver is already in the wireless-2.6 git tree.