Hillier, Gernot wrote: > If there's nothing available yet: is this a huge task or something which a > more-or-less-kernel-newbie with an absolute lack of WLAN knowledge could dig > into in a reasonable time frame? Any pointers?
Up until recently, the biggest thing holding this functionality back has been that the stack (ieee80211 & softmac) does not support ad-hoc mode. Implementing support here is a relatively large thing. However, Michael Wu has now ported the driver to the devicescape d80211 stack, which has stack-level support for ad-hoc, master mode, etc. The next step is to add the required code to the d80211 port of zd1211rw to support this, and this isn't really a big job because the code in the vendor driver can be examined. The d80211 stack (and zd1211rw port) is being kept in wireless-dev.git on kernel.org for inclusion in mainline Linux sometime in the next few months. Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.ath.cx/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
