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

Kyrre Ness Sjobak kyrre at solution-forge.net
Thu Sep 16 20:57:39 UTC 2004


tor, 16.09.2004 kl. 16.03 skrev Jonathan Andrews:
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 12:30, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:33:21AM +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> > > distributions because for reasons purely political (as far as I can
> > > tell???) the promisc mode was left on the cutting room floor !!! WHY
> > > !!!!
> > 
> > Promisc mode (on those adapters that support it) is actually rather
> > complicated in the wireless world. A lot of the old prism firmware doesn't 
> > support it for example. OpenAP has to basically take over the h/w at a much
> > lower level to handle that and that involves a native 802.11 stack - which
> > oddly enough is the direction that stuff is going
> 
> Cool :-)
> 
> Monitor mode is optional as far as I understand it. Users will tolerate
> a "your hardware wont do that message" more than a "please use xyz
> wifi_the_bits_we_left_out.diff and recompile the kernel" ;-)
> 
> I understand its a mess at the hardware level and having raw 802.11 will
> be cool, but at the moment its getting messy.
> 
> I find lots like this  of threads like this
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3192
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3245
> http://www.bastard.net/~kos/wifi/rfmon.html
> 
> It would be nice to be able to use cool toys without building new kernel
> or modules :-)  Im sure that fedora will be on a lot of laptops, I know
> its on mine - and wifi even works :-D
> 
> Cheers,
> Jon
> 
> 
Mine to - i am writing this in evolution forwarded over SSH to my laptop
via WLAN from my main machine - with the adm8211 driver :D





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