http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/802.11.html
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Expect a big project here...
[/QUOTE]
With over 1200 pages of IEEE standards information, I'm not suprised!
[QUOTE]
PS: Maybe you can also check whether the EEE PC supports
int 15.87 and if not whether some HIMEMX / JEMM386 combo
or similar could be used to make FDAPM ACPIDUMP work ;-)
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Sure, do you have a template written in C for testing interrupts?
That or ASM, I can read both of them!
[QUOTE]
You can see many examples of open
source DOS network card packet drivers on the CRYNWR homepage
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http://www.crynwr.com/packet_driver.html
This seems to be a specification for interrogating any of those drivers.
It may help!
I have a dedicated FDOS box at home with a 3COM 3C905CX, I think...
I'll check when I get home. Perhaps some experiments with this card
will also help...? Do you have any recommendations?
I'm more than willing to undertake what may seem a daunting project. I
need something to do which keeps me occupied for those cold Fall
and Winter nights. Plus, I just picked up my amateur radio license, and
this seems like a good, rewarding and education project as far as that
realm of technology is concerned.
73!
Bray.
- Original Message -
From: Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de
To: b...@vom.com; freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Driver development
Hi Bray,
I have an Atheros pci-x 802.11 wireless card in my Asus EEEpc laptop and
there is no driver available for the card! Does anyone have some links
and
resources pertaining to driver/packet driver development for DOS? I'm not
looking for a quick fix, but a project!
Expect a big project here... You can see many examples of open
source DOS network card packet drivers on the CRYNWR homepage:
www.crynwr.com/drivers/
Atheros.com says they actively support the Linux driver:
http://madwifi-project.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/
http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/Chipsets
There are actually THREE variants of the driver:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k
http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/About/ath5k
...and a third based on a non-portable binary blob
The drivers will depend on Linux infrastructure so you will probably
have to add many other bits and pieces. You can probably get an easier
start by only porting their info tool first:
http://madwifi-project.org/browser/ath_info/trunk
A good compiler for porting Linux stuff to DOS is DJGPP:
www.delorie.com/djgpp/
Of course with Wireless things are usually much worse
than with normal network cards, because you will have
to have some software which takes care of setting up
wireless connection details. In many networks, you will
also need something which does WEP, WPA or WPA2 security.
But of course I understand that you do not want to carry
a cable which is heavier than your tiny netbook laptop :-)
Eric
PS: Maybe you can also check whether the EEE PC supports
int 15.87 and if not whether some HIMEMX / JEMM386 combo
or similar could be used to make FDAPM ACPIDUMP work ;-)
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