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17 09 2009Bas Vermeulenhas developed driver for the Elsa MC2 and ZCOMWL24 devices originally written by ZCOM and Elsa. Pavel Roskinmaintains the SymbolCF version of the Orinoco driver. Lots of info about Linux, all the docs and Howto how toset up networking on you Linux box and tons of links. SimonAnderson has Linux Wireless Access Point HOWTO, whichinclude lots of good information on various AP topics HostAP, DHCP,DNS, routing, firewalling, NoCat….
Theyhave set up central linuxWirelessmailing list that only some drivers use. AndreaMerello is maintaining the old driver for the various cards based on the ATHEROS802. 11a chipset, and had preliminary source code available notyet functional. James Ketrenos andmany people are working on the Intel ieee80211 stack. NYCwireless wants FreePublic Wireless Internet for New York City. Jouni Malinen hasdeveloped the ieee80211 devicescape stack, which is derivedfrom the HostAP driver.
MarkS. Tarmo Jrvalt has long listsof cards containing various chipsets, one page per chipset,including some Google Ads. Ben Gross has morelinks about Wireless mostly Linux related, and quite up todate. This stack iscurrently in the Linux kernel 2. 6. 14, is used by variousIntel Centrino drivers and is doing lots orwork on implementing layer for Linux. Manuel Estrada Sainzwas maintaining the OrinocoUSB version of the Orinoco driver. David Leonard was working on public domain Proxim RangeLan2 Pcmciadriver for OpenBSD and needs help. The Linux Wirelesswiki has some limited hardware surveys. NicolaiLangfeldt has short list of 802. 11g cards comaptible withLinux.
YunusBookwala explain how to use the Proxim card tocreate point to point links. Linux users in Australia areusing the good old Wavelan or the Wavelan IEEE to createpoint to point data link between distant houses. Tim Higgins has ahuge amount of information on his web site FAQ,articles, reviews, links, which is acurate, detailed and up to date thats quite feat.
The State University of Ohio has basic Overviewof 802. 11. Many mailing lists. 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. Werner, alongside the LinuxMobileGuide,keeps long list of cards, but theinformation on this page is not always correct, so double check. Advanced, exhaustive,accurate and up to date. Daniel Drake andothers are maintaining the ZyDAS ZD1211 OpenSource drivers,and they have mailing list aboutit. John MarkusBjrndalen was the maintainer the Symbol drivers, and hehad some discussionforums about it.
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