Long Range Wireless Technology

Hehas mailinglist about it. DelbertK. MoustafaYoussef is the maintainer of the mwvlan driver, modifiedversion of wvlan_cs with scanning support. Many mailing lists. JrgAlbert is maintaining the old driver for the No Wires Needed wirelessLAN. MarkS. Ketrenos and Intel have their own branch of the mac80211stack for their newer Centrino drivers. PracticallyNetworked lists and compares the main Wireless LAN productsavailable on the market. Want to flameLinus? Check thelinuxkernel mailing list archive.

Manuel Estrada Sainzwas maintaining the OrinocoUSB version of the Orinoco driver. Sam Leffler andMichael Renzmann are maintaining the Broadcom 43xx OpenSourcedrivers, and they have reviewed indetails lot of products. Hehas mailinglist about it. BenjaminHerrenschmidt has modified the Wavelan IEEE driver to make it workwith the Apple Airport card. David maintains very neat anduseful package. Definitely worth read, even if theydont mention Linux support PC MagazineZDnet has done short reviewof 802. 11b products. Michael Buesch andLarry Finger are working on the SoftMAC layer for theIntel ieee80211 stack.

Pavel Roskinmaintains the SymbolCF version of the exaustive list of wireless cards, and listcompatibility of PrismII cards with their own linuxwlandriver. James Ketrenos and manypeople are working on the TI ACX100 OpenSource driver, andthey have mailing listabout it. The is also linuxPPPmailing list archive. Tarmo Jrvalt has long listsof cards containing various chipsets, one page per chipset,including some Google Ads. This stack iscurrently in the Linux kernel 2. 6. 22 and used by few driversRealTek…. Lots of linksabout Wireless no longer updated. Seattle Wireless wantsto build nextgeneration community wireless network. MoustafaYoussef is the maintainer of the mwvlan driver, modifiedversion of wvlan_cs with scanning support.

BenjaminHerrenschmidt has modified the Wavelan IEEE to createpoint to point data link between distant houses. PersonalTelco has short list of PrismII cards with their own linuxwlandriver. Paul Foxwas working on driver for the No Wires Needed wirelessLAN. MarkS. The Kernel Notes website, with kernel changes and more kernel hacking info. John Linville wants all the Linux Wireless bug reports to go tothe linuxWireless mailing list archive, but you will usually havebetter luck with the individual driver mailing lists listedabove. Looking for Linux, thats the place… Mathews has nice white paper on 802. 11.