Re: Looking for developer documentation

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Simon NIVAULT <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are 6 French students working on a project intended to develop a
> wifi driver for RTEMS on x86.
> We haven't found any reliable developer documentation on Intel
> chipsets. Since you have used Intel wifi firmware, we would be
> grateful if you could give us some advice/web link/documentation about
> these issues :

What NIC do you consider to use?

>  - Can we use the firmware, and if we can't, what could we do
The License that accompany the firmware states what you can do with it.
>  - Where can we find the firmware
Firmware is provided on http://intellinuxwireless.org. Look for
download section.
>  - How to use it

Please look to the source code of the appropriate driver. Latest
driver are part of
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git
or http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.git;a=summary


> Any additional advice or comments will be very appreciated,

I'm not sure what you are aiming to but good luck. This mailing list
is good place to come for advice.

Tomas

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