Direction of wireless networking in Fedora ( was RE: Wireless update to ifup and network-functions )

Farkas Levente lfarkas at bppiac.hu
Thu Sep 16 14:23:18 UTC 2004


Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 02:33 +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> 
>>Wireless discovery in general isn't going to be easy across
>>distributions because for reasons purely political (as far as I can
>>tell???) the promisc mode was left on the cutting room floor !!! WHY
>>!!!!
>>
>>I would have thought that tune, and listen would be the first two things
>>any wireless driver would be able to do.
> 
> 
> Having looked a _lot_ at kernel wireless drivers in the past 2 months
> while developing NetworkManager, I'm not quite sure what the problem
> here is...
> 
> Major wireless cards and drivers:
> Orinoco (Intersil, Wavelan, Airport, etc)
> Cisco Aironet
> Atmel
> Prism54
> Intel 2100/2200

may i add Atheros (MADwifi) to this list.

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