> From: "T. Jameson Little" <beatgam...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2015 23:44:44 -0700 > > >From what I've been able to gather, there is no 802.11n support in > OpenBSD because more work is needed in ieee80211(9). I would greatly > appreciate it if someone could answer a few questions for me: > > * Is anyone working on this? > * If so, is there any way that I could help? > * If not, who would be the best to ask about where to get started?
Nobody is really working on this. For most developers 11a/11g seems to be good enough. > * How much work is required? Is the work required in the order of days, > weeks, months? Depends. 11n station support is probably something of the order of days to a couple of -weeks. AP support is likely to be significantly more work. > * Would parts of FreeBSD's implementation be useful, or are the two > network stacks different enough that a new implementation is > required? The OpenBSD 802.11 stack already has 11n bits in it. They have not really been tested though, so more fixes will be necessay. I don't think the FreeBSD code is going to help much. I expect most of the work to be in driver code. > I'm a relatively competent C programmer, but I have very little > experience with kernel code, much less network protocols. I would > like to use OpenBSD as an access point, but I need wireless-n @ 5GHz in > order to do so, so I'm motivated enough to allocate some time for > testing and even writing code. I could probably also supply some basic > hardware if that would help, though I don't have a big budget. I don't want to discourage you, but AP support for 11n will be quite an effort. Even if somebody gets 11n to work, I think it will be hard work to make it work well. Some people here will claim that OpenBSD 11a/11g APs don't really work very well.
