ThomasCorey has developed driver
7 09 2009Absovalhas one of the exaustive list fromAbsoval. MoustafaYoussef is the maintainer of the Prism andPrismII based cards Linux drivers and is doing lots orwork on implementing layer for Linux. SeattleWireless has pretty long list of cards, but theinformation on this page is not always correct, so double check. They have some mailinglists. OpenWRT is wirelessdistribution targetting various Home Wireless Routers, such asthe famous Linksys WRT54G Access Points. BAWUG, the Bay AreaCalifornia Wireless User group is pretty active and has some mailing lists. The Prism54 project aremaintaining the driver for Intersil 802.
CullenJennings and ElmerJoandi were the maintainers of the Aironet Arlan Linuxdriver. TheNetworkManager team has complete list of hardware and driversthat works properly with NetworkManager. Most manufacturer web sites are listed in theHowto… This allow to do IP bridging on any802. 11 card instead of MAC bridging. SimonAnderson has Linux Wireless Access Point HOWTO, whichinclude lots of good information on various AP topics HostAP, DHCP,DNS, routing, firewalling, NoCat…. Their web site contains mountain of information, such asthis WirelessFAQ. Seattle Wireless wantsto build nextgeneration community wireless network. JamesP.
FooChun Choong has web page that link to various BlueToothresearch projects and papers. Their list is long and they have mailing listabout it. The Prism54 project aremaintaining the driver for Intersil 802. 11g cards, and theyhave some mailinglists about it. Jouni Malinen hasdeveloped the ieee80211 devicescape stack, which is derivedfrom the HostAP driver. The Linux Wirelesswiki has some limited hardware surveys. Intersil formerly Harris has lot of whitepapers, but they tend to have very strong bias towards what theyare offering.
Dave Koberstein was themaintainer of the Xircom NetwaveLinux driver. Mark NYCwireless wants FreePublic Wireless Internet for New York City. Consume the netwant to do the same in the area of London. The Kernel Notes website, with kernel changes and more kernel hacking info. YangHweeTAN has quick Howto about Building Secure Wireless AccessPoint using the HostAP driver and FreeSWAN. They have setup mailinglist, which is not Wavelan specific and very useful. JacekPliszka has many tips on how to use the HostAPdriver, especially to set up an Access Point.
They have tested the latest products fromthe big names. David maintains very neat anduseful package. Mark Wallis and Ivo vanDoorn are maintaining the net80211 stack, whichis used by the MadWifi driver andby FreeBSD. Some outdated user level MobileIP implementation for Linux and equally outdated Linux Mobile IP information. The Linux DocumentationProject. Try to find the unlicensedbands You also want to check mypaper page, especially if you look for either mypublications or SWAP information. The Linux KernelArchive. Advanced, exhaustive,accurate and up to date thats quite feat. The Linux Router ProjectLRP has also some support for some Wireless Lans, for examplethere is Aviator2.
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