On 4/17/19 12:00 PM, Ratnaraj Mirgal wrote: > Hi All, > > At the outset, I do understand there is no mainstream requirement for > having virtual wireless NIC, if et all there is any, mac80211_hwsim (part > of Linux) is more than sufficient. > > So this is purely an academic attempt. > > In order to support following topology, > > [image: qemu-wifi-topology.png]
I never thought of sending a picture of an ASCII schema =) > I am implementing IEEE 802.11 softmac device based on virtio driver. I > wanted to use existing netdev trasport like socket, however due to lack of > better understanding of internals I have added new netdev (airport), which > is very similar to VDE transport implementation. On frontend side, I have > combined virtio-net and mac80211_hwsim to form frontend wireless driver. > > As of now all driver are loading, and further working on correcting queue > implementation. > > 00:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Red Hat, Inc Device [1af4:100a] > Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device [1af4:000a] > Kernel driver in use: virtio-pci > > # lsmod > Module Size Used by Tainted: G > arc4 16384 2 > virtio_mac80211 24576 0 > mac80211 356352 1 virtio_mac80211 > sha256_generic 24576 0 > cfg80211 221184 1 mac80211 > > 4: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group > default qlen 1000 > link/ether 52:55:00:d1:55:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > > I have kept the repository at, > https://github.com/ra7narajm/virtio-mac80211 > > So if possible, do go through and let me know any mistakes. > > Thank You. > > - > Ratnaraj >
