> Right; that's the problem. I doubt it would work on those distros > without a lot of work. Basically, if you want an XO mesh > interoperable device that's _not_ using the Marvell Libertas 8388 > chipset, you need full access to the driver source, and if the device > is a fullmac chip, the firmware sources too. I'd imagine most softmac > cards would be much easier to deal with because the smarts are in the > driver, not the firmware.
Frys/Outpost.com has the Linksys WRT54GL for $60. It has a Broadcom BCM2050KWL. (I think. That's from the web with nothing in hand to verify but I haven't found any conflicting opinions either.) Broadcom's press release (2002) says it's a 802.11a/b chipset http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=315414 Broadcom has a long track record of being very not-open with specs so I'm more than a bit suspicious. I pulled over the tar file from Linksys but haven't found the sources for the driver yet. Probably I got the wrong tar file. Is that driver open enough to make this sort of hacking possible? Is there a box at a similar pricepoint that uses a more open chipset? -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
