Long Range Wireless Technology

MarkS. Absovalhas one of the exaustive list fromAbsoval. David Gibsonis the author and maintainer of the Prism andPrismII based cards Linux drivers and is doing lots orwork on implementing layer for Linux. Lots of info about Linux, all the docs and Howto how toset up networking on you Linux box and tons of links. Bas Vermeulenhas developed driver for the various cards based on the ATHEROS802. 11a chipset, and had preliminary source code available notyet functional.

You can also check the classical Linux on Laptops web site. BernardAdoba has created The Unofficial Security Web Page,with many links about security issues in wireless networks and802. 1x. Seattle Wireless wantsto build nextgeneration community wireless network. Their web site contains mountain of information, such asthis WirelessFAQ. Elektrosmog wantsfast Internet everywhere, starting in Sweeden. SeattleWireless has pretty long list of laptop specificpages. Another excellent Wirelesslink Howto, where they describe in details all the step by stepoperations theory, hardware, software… of using the Symphony orother Wireless LAN as point to point links.

Thisstack is currently in the Linuxkernel 2. 6. 17 and used by few driversRealTek…. Dag Brattli was themaintainer of the Xircom NetwaveLinux driver. Paul Foxwas working on driver for the various cards based on the ATHEROS802. 11a chipset, and had preliminary source code available notyet functional.

TheNetworkManager team has complete list of hardware and driversthat works properly with NetworkManager. Most manufacturer web sites are listed in theHowto… Michael Buesch andLarry Finger are working on the Intel ieee80211 stack. WISPDist isas embedded Linux distribution for Airport torun Linux directly on the Airport or RG1000 Access Point. Like many others, itis based on the HostAP driver. The Arlan WirelessRouter Howto explain how to use any wireless LAN as point topoint data link between distant houses. Some outdated user level MobileIP implementation for Linux and equally outdated Linux Mobile IP information. The Linux DocumentationProject. Many mailing lists.

ROSE is Linux distributionthat Radionet use to deploy WiFi HotSpots. This is very difficult task, so dont be surprised if youfind minor errors. very long time InfoTech was developing a802. 11 software stack for Linux, including the Access KTH has released Flying Linux, Linuxdistribution with native support for wireless LANs mostlyWavelan IEEE & Mobile IP. Thisstack is currently in the Linuxkernel 2. 6. 17 and used by various drivers Broadcom, Zydas….