Re: MadWifi HAL now open source

You can use a 802.11g card now with madwifi, and prelim patches have
been submitted to get ath9k to do 802.11n AP mode.

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k

I wouldn't expect it to be stable for a good long while though.   If
it starts to get there, there will likely be another fork.

ar5k, madwifi, madwifi-ng, ath9k, I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

-matt


On Dec 9, 4:31=A0pm, Daevid Vincent <[email protected]> wrote:
> So does this mean I'll be able to use one of those newer 802.11g or n
> cards as my AP on my linux box?
>
> Currently I'm stuck at 802.11b with my Engenius Senao NL-2511 PCMCIA
> card and hostap. I'm dying.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
> MadWifi HAL now open source
>
> Sam Leffler, maintainer of the binary HAL used in MadWifi releases,
> announced last weekend that he was releasing the source code for the
> hardware abstraction layer (HAL) of the MadWifi Linux Wifi driver. It is
> now available under an ISC license via a subversion repository (svn web
> interface).
>
> For a long time, MadWifi was the only Linux driver able to handle
> Atheros Wifi cards. A few weeks ago, Atheros released a HAL under the
> same license, to help develop the ath5k, IEEE 802.11a/b/g, Wifi driver,
> which some developers, including Atheros employee Luis R. Rodriguez, had
> ported from OpenBSD to Linux last year. Ath5k and the ath9k Draft-N WLAN
> driver, which dispense entirely with proprietary parts in favour of
> OpenHAL, have been part of the Linux kernel since versions 2.6.25 and
> 2.6.27 respectively. Before now, MadWifi used the manufacturer's
> proprietary HAL, which prevented direct access to the Wifi hardware. The
> developers of the MadWifi driver had tolerated this situation, although
> it meant that parts of the software project resembled a black box and
> could not be incorporated in the Linux kernel.
>
> The release of the MadWifi HAL concludes the agreement between Leffler
> and Atheros which gave him access to information on the manufacturer's
> devices. All fixes and updates for new chips will be carried out by the
> developer community from now on. The published source code uses the
> Linux operating system as its reference platform. Potential developers
> can find out more on the ath5k-devel and ath9k-devel mailing lists; note
> that these lists are SSL secured with an unverifiable certificate and
> will require an exception be made in your browser.
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