Long Range Wireless Technology

This layer is currently in the Linux kernel 2. 6. 22 and used by few driversRealTek…. Toms Networking hasfrequent detailed reviews of various wireless hardware. Lee JohnKeyserAllen was the maintainer the Symbol drivers, and hehad some discussionforums about it. Mark DelbertK. Definitely worth read, even if theydont mention Linux support PC MagazineZDnet has done short reviewof 802. 11b products. They have some mailinglists. Sam Leffler andMichael Renzmann are maintaining the binary Atheros driver,and have mailing listabout it. MoustafaYoussef is the maintainer of the mwvlan driver, modifiedversion of wvlan_cs with scanning support. He has mailing list aboutit.

The Prism54 project aremaintaining the driver for Intersil 802. 11g cards, and theyhave some mailinglists about it. They have some mailinglists. Intersil formerly Harris has lot of whitepapers, but they tend to have very complete page on Linux BlueToothsupport, linking to all information available on the on thissubject, but hasnt updated it in since Personal Telco want tobuild alternative communication networks in the area of Boston. They have tested the latest products fromthe big names. Ive found really good web page on thedifferent radio products available now quite outdated. KismetWireless list card compatible with Kismet, and thecorresponding driver.

NYCwireless wants FreePublic Wireless Internet for New York City. Want to flameLinus? Check thelinuxkernel mailing list archive. Atmel has aSourceForge projects for their Atmel USB and Pcmcia drivers,with some mailinglists. TheNetworkManager team has complete list of hardware and driversthat works properly with NetworkManager. Most manufacturer web sites are listed in theHowto… YangHweeTAN has quick Howto about Building Secure Wireless AccessPoint using the HostAP driver and FreeSWAN. Linux users in Australia areusing the good old Wavelan or the Wavelan IEEE driver to make it workwith the Apple Airport card. They have tested the latest products fromthe big names.

Note that Pcmcia development has migrated to thekernel, you can follow this on the new Pcmciamailing list. OpenWRT is wirelessdistribution targetting various Home Wireless Routers, such asthe famous Linksys WRT54G Access Points. Atmel has aSourceForge projects for their Atmel USB and Pcmcia drivers,with some mailinglists. Ketrenos and Intel have their own branch of the mac80211stack for their newer Centrino drivers. He has coupleof mailing list about it. AndreasNeuhaus was the maintainer of the Xircom NetwaveLinux driver. They have some mailinglists.