yeap. and this is the same policy to get MIMO 802.11n and roaming 802.11r working out of proprietary protocols in the future.
David. > Hi all, > > I have read the related information yesterday as well. If you want to > know more about what 802.11s is doing in 2.6.26 kernel, you can take a > look to http://www.open80211s.org/trac > > The stack is ready, but it requires wifi driver to fully support and > only driver that based on mac80211 wireless stack will work. ath5k is > closer to support it but need more work. > > Stay tune to later kernel for more wireless driver to support 802.11s. > > Regards, > Punky > > David Gascón wrote: >> Hi all! >> with the recently 802.11s module added to the kernel now comes time of >> research and efforts to see how it is going to work with the rest of the >> system. >> The protocol uses layer 2 to create all the radio metrics and the state >> and quality of the nodes in the network. On the layer 3 the HWMP >> protocol (based on RM-AODV) will be the one used to keep the metrics and >> WLAN information updated from the MAC layer. >> I am sure the kernel will make its best on Voyage as usual, the problems >> come when seeing if the wifi drivers are ready for features like multi >> frequency and high accurate radio metrics. (It is gonna be a hard way, >> however It just a matter of time to get it working). >> >> I will start working on it as soon as I can. If any of you are going to >> start with it too just tell me to join efforts. >> >> regards. >> >> David. >> >> > > -- Proyectos : http://www.laotracara.com _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
