Return-path: Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.243]:59917 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754050AbYGaOPP (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:15:15 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so90875and.103 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:15:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: (sfid-20080731_161523_701288_C6B1DFAE) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:15:14 +0400 From: Dmitry To: "Dan Williams" Subject: Re: Driver for the FullMAC card Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1217512488.12016.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <1217512488.12016.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2008/7/31 Dan Williams : > On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 22:51 +0000, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to work on the Prism2 USB driver (currently maintained as a part of >> wlan-ng project) to be able to push it into mainline. The card itself is >> a FullMAC card. Where should I start? What parts of 802.11 stacks/API >> should I use? There is plenty of information regarding SoftMAC drivers, >> but no clear pointers for developing drivers for the FullMAC cards. > > If you're talking about the same hardware that linux-wlan-ng supported > (ie, what Ubuntu ships as prism2_usb) then that hardware can be softmac, > actually. We discussed this a while ago and agreed that a completely > new mac80211-based driver for this hardware was the best way to go, > rather than trying to stuff USB support into hostap. Yes, I was talking about prism2_usb cards. I'll explore how to switch it to the softmac. -- With best wishes Dmitry