Messages in this thread | | | From | Andres Salomon <> | Subject | rtl8180 status update | Date | Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:57:00 -0500 |
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Since I'm getting a lot of queries about the status of my rtl8180 driver, I figured I'd post an update. It's not currently in a usable state; I'm working on 802.11 manage frames, to make the card able to associate w/ an AP. I haven't been able to figure out if the hardware has any sort of support for wrapping frames (management or otherwise) with PLCP and MAC headers, and/or whether there's a special tx register/ring for sending out management frames. As there's no common code for constructing management frames (each wireless driver seems to implement it), I'm currently working on constructing a probe packet (w/ PLCP and MAC headers added), sending it out through the normal tx ring, and hoping my AP is kind enough to respond. If that works, I'll at least know that my rx/tx handling code is correct; right now, I don't think I can test it w/out associating.
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