Tomas Martišius wrote: > Larry Finger wrote: >> The firmware only does a small part of the operation - the driver does >> the rest. > I think'ed firmware does a lot of more.... >> The writers of the >> Windows driver had the cooperation of the hardware designers and knew >> exactly how the chip would >> respond to a given set of operations. We have had to reverse-engineer >> the code and try to emulate >> their stuff. Obviously, we don't have it right yet. Considering that >> 4318's couldn't go above 11M >> until a few weeks ago, we are making progress. >> > Yes, I know all this story.
Your question didn't make it seem that you really understood. > > One more question. How about such projects as openwrt or dd-wrt? > As I know - on these at least Linksys devices broadcom wireless chipset > is also used. > I don't know exact version of it, but if linux kernel works on this > device - which driver is used? Your's or some other? > If your's - they somehow forced it to work in "Master" mode? AFAIK, the openWRT project uses pre-compiled binary drivers for the bcm43xx device from the Linksys GPL'd source distribution, which is also the piece of code that was decompiled in our reverse-engineering step. We could use it as well, but we would be limited to 2.4 kernels, have to run MIPS hardware, and would have tainted kernels. From what I read, the openWRT project is very interested in the mac80211 driver and hopes to use it to replace their current version. Larry _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
