Download Linux Wireless - Linux Kernel Networking (4)

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SoftMAC and FullMAC
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In 2000-2001, the market became abound with
laptops with wireless nics.
It was important to produce wireless driver and
wireless stack Linux solutions in time.
The goal was then, as Jeff Garzik (the previous
wireless Maintainer) put it: “They just want their
hardware to work...".
mac80211 - new Linux softmac layer.
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formerly called d80211 of Devicescape)
Current mac80211 maintainer: Johannes Berg
from sipsolutions.