Re: Anybody working on 802.11 generic framework?

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 02:01:28PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've been told that newer chipsets are more "winmodem"-like for the
> 802.11{a,b,g,ti's22mbs} cards.  These cards generally just give you
> beacon packets and nothing else (maybe ack too).  This, coupled with
> HostAP mode, means it might make sense to have a generic 802.11 stack
> in the kernel to deal with the MAC layer issues that future drivers
> will require.
> 
> Has anybody else thought of this?  Anybody working on it?

I thought Julian did this in netgraph for this firmware based AP stuff
so he might have some thoughts.  I think there was also a suggestion on
the FreeBSD lists (maybe -net) at some point of adding this stuff as a
layer on the level of ethernet, but I don't remember who suggested that.

-- Brooks

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