Long Range Wireless Technology

Paul Foxwas working on driver for the Raytheon Raylink802. 11 wireless LAN his old homepage. The Linux Router ProjectLRP has also some support for some Wireless Lans, for examplethere is Aviator2. 4LRP image and some WavelanLRP images. Lots of info about Linux, all the docs and Howto how toset up networking on you Linux box and tons of links. Thisstack is currently in the Linux kernel 2. 6. 14, is used by variousIntel Centrino drivers and is derived from the HostAP driver. DelbertK. BernardAdoba has created The Unofficial Security Web Page,with many links about security issues in wireless networks and802. 1x.

This is based on theHostAP driver. You can also check the classical Linux on Laptops web site. And they have comprehensive list of links… The Prism54 project aremaintaining the driver for Intersil 802. 11g cards, and theyhave some mailinglists about it. Mathews has developped the linuxwlan stack, usedby the linuxwlan driver. JasonHecker maintains list of all Atmel USB devices. OpenWRT is wirelessdistribution targetting various Home Wireless Routers, such asthe famous Linksys WRT54G Access Points. David Miller wants all the Linux Wireless wiki. Paul Foxwas working on driver for the No Wires Needed wirelessLAN. MarkS. Laptops are always more problematic.

JrgAlbert is maintaining the RealTek OpenSource drivers. RossFinlayson explain in details how to use Linux as Wirelessrouter for their wireless ISP LIVE. COM. MoustafaYoussef is the maintainer of the mwvlan driver, modifiedversion of wvlan_cs with scanning support.

Introduction The devices, thedrivers other Unsupported devicesUsing Win32 driversOther technologiesWireless bridge, HAM, IrDA, BlueTooth, CellularWireless LANs in use Choice, features &interoperabilityWhich vendor How toidentify cardInstallation, configuration& documentationDeployement issues topology, performance, reliability, coverage, security…Wireless Extensions forLinux Wireless LAN technologyoverview MAC, LAN, Layer and other strange words…Anatomy of radio LANThe radio modem physical layerThe MAC level link layerSome Wireless LAN standardsLucent WavelanIEEE, Lucent Orinoco, Apple Airport Enterasys RoamAbout 802, ElsaAirLancer & MelcoBuffalo 802. 11bObsolete GPLdriver in Pcmcia package wvlan_csMPLGPL driver inKernel orinoco_csbinarylibrary driver from Lucent, Enterasys & Agere wavelan2_cs, USBdriver orinoco_usbGPL Airportdriver airportIntersil PrismII basedcards the common 802.

Lots of info about Linux, all the docs and Howto how toset up networking on you Linux box and tons of links. Mathews has nice white paper on 802. 11. Michael Buesch andLarry Finger are working on the Intel ieee80211 stack. Synack Communications has done some testing of the PowerConsumptions of some common Wireless LANs. Roger Coudhas developped an impressive package to predict the performance andcoverage of radio system based on the ATHEROS802. 11a chipset, and had preliminary source code available notyet functional.