On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:52:14AM +0800, colin wrote:
I have used two 802.11x wireless usb devices successfully on MIPS platform.
One is realtek 8187 and the other one is ralink 2571.
I would like to put them into kernel tree and then I found that there are
not many 802.11x devices supported in Linux.
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Moreover, there is no any wireless usb device supported.
Wireless support under Linux is suffering from several problems:
o some core require microcode to be loaded but the vendor does not
give such permission.
o lack of documentation, sometimes for paranoid or bogus legal reasons or
intellectual property concerns.
At times it really seems vendors are working to maximize pain for the user ...
It is also very strange that 8187 and 2571 both have their own ieee802.11x
stack and crypt drivers. It seems that Linux doesn't offer them.
I am wondering why Linux is so complex in 802.11x.
Well, for one thing because 802.11 is complex. The Linux wireless support
has gone through several generations; some of the wireless work was for
one or the other reason never integrated in the kernel.org kernel.
Ralf
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