On 1/23/07, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 12:14 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 11:18 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> > > Is the 802.11s Draft 1.0 spec publicly available yet? It is supposed
> > > to be making changes at the very lowest MAC layers. It will be hard to
> > > be compatible with that from user space.
> >
> > Good point, it's not possible to implement this without changes to the
> > MAC.
> >
> > > The software doesn't have to be written but there should be at least
> > > some design work done on how 11s should fit into the existing world
> > > for both a firmware and software implementation. I'd hate to see a
> > > different implementation for each vendor and another one for the
> > > software stack.
> >
> > Then we'll first have to find those vendors interested in actually
> > changing their MAC to allow .11s I guess.
>
> I haven't seen the 11s spec, are devices with softmac implementations
> flexible enough to implement it or do they need firmware changes too?
I believe it needs to at least support 4 address frames, which usually
requires firmware changes on fullmac cards, but fully softmac cards
(atheros, broadcom) probably would not.
I am working with the zd1211b which is also softmac. I'm willing to do
some work on 11s support for dscape but I need a spec. I'll probably
need some help too since I haven't worked on the wireless code before.
--
Jon Smirl
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