Silly (stupid?) question time: Has anyone on this list done enough development work to enable master-mode w/ ZD1211RW, and if so, are you willing to share your work?
Briefly, here's my situation: I'm sitting on the fringe of the jungle in Papua New Guinea, and would dearly love to set up some point-to-point wireless links (a la http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/ , using woks rather than strainers) for our "campus"; fairly clear line-of-sight, 2-4km distances. I have access to some Belkin Wireless G USB adapters (F5D7050, zd1211b chip) and some older PC's (laptops or desktops) I can configure as WAPs/routers. We have in-house CentOS5 (kernel 2.6.18) & Fedora 7 (kernel 2.6.22) upon which to base the platform(s). We have i-net access (usually) via a "high-speed" link to the outside world (high-speed is somewhat relative...it's pretty fast for these parts, but awfully slow by real world standards) but it's metered & costly to do a lot of data transmission; i.e., don't ask me to GIT/SVN clone a handful of different repo's by tomorrow morning. So now...first, don't tell me I need to switch to some other distro as step #1. Fedora & CentOS are what I have to work with, so that's what I'm going to work with. I'm leaning toward F7 since it's at the 2.6.22 kernel level, and more easily aligns w/ the advances in mac80211 & zd1211rw development (or am I horribly confused?), plus I have the kernel sources for 2.6.22 and am not afraid to "get my feet wet." If need be, I can occasionally pull in patches/updates, but it almost busts my monthly budget if I have to do that too regularly. I could possibly pull in a clone of someone else's repository, but that would be an exceptional one-shot deal. Next, I'm really interested in getting these Belkin adapters to work for me, simply because I have them here now. If I have to move to Prism/2 or some such, fine...but it's not that easy to get equipment like that out here every day (no electronics superstore down the street, and we really push DHL to their limits delivering to where we can get to their delivery.) So...anyone done anything to enable AP mode w/ ZD1211, and care to share what you've got with me? I'd love to get something set up, and will work with you as much as I can to make this a reality. Thanks for hearing me out.... Mark E. Wilt Pioneer Bible Translators RHCE 803004793310843 KC0TVW ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
