Denis Vlasenko <[email protected]> wrote: -> What it can do? In particular, can it: -> * send packets with arbitrary contents? In particular, packets -> shorter than 3-address 802.11 header? packets with WEP bit set? -> Does it allow to do WEP encoding by host instead of hal? -> Any weird limitations? -> * receive packets? -> * tune to the given channel (or freq)? -> I don't really know to which version you are referring to. If you wrote about OpenBSD then I can't give an authoritative answer. -> If it can do that, everything else IIRC can be done in software. -> Really, what prevents us from, say, beacons every 1/10s? Yes, that is a very nature of atheros radio chips. It is simplier to tell what you can't do in software with these chipsets. This complicates writing a driver a bit too ;-) -> -> Nice to see you are in "release early" crowd. -> -> http://mateusz.agrest.org/atheros/: -> may I suggest using atheros-20050805 instead of atheros-08052005 -> (will maintain correct sorting order in 2006,2007...) Hummm... these are old patches :) the new site is located at http://www.ath-driver.org As I'm going to put separate patch snapshots out there too, I will change the naming order. Mateusz -- @..@ Mateusz Berezecki (----) [email protected] http://mateusz.agrest.org ( >__< ) PGP: 5F1C 86DF 89DB BFE9 899E 8CBE EB60 B7A7 43F9 5808 ^^ ~~ ^^
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