David Young commitolta az ADMtek ADM8211 (egy bus-mastering MAC (Medium Access Control) 802.11b-hez) eszközhöz készített meghajtóját a NetBSD forrásfájába. Ez az első nyílt forrású driver ehhez az gyakran előforduló chiphez. A driver szerzője szerint ez a chip lesz az, amely jelentősen le fogja törni a 802.11b vezetéknélküli eszközök árát. M. Warner Losh portolni fogja ezt az eszközmeghajtót FreeBSD alá.
Subject: new 802.11 driver: ADMtek ADM8211
To: None
From: David Young
Date: 07/06/2003 19:10:13
All,
I've just committed to NetBSD my driver for the ADMtek ADM8211, a bus-mastering MAC for 802.11b. This is the first open-source driver for this ubiquitous chip.
This is the chip that has brought the price of an 11Mb/s 802.11b radio *way* down. I just bought two PCI cards (LanReady WP2000) for $25 each. The Cardbus cards are cheap, too.
There are some outstanding problems with the driver, which I describe in the manual page.
ADMtek tells me that you cannot use the ADM8211 to produce a host access point. It makes economic sense: they want to sell their access point chip, the ADM8211B. I will try a few more things before I write-off the possibility of an AP mode.
M. Warner Losh is going to do a FreeBSD port.
Dave
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