Re: Wireless driver discussion

I cannot use ip for communication. My driver will need to access the mac 
layer of the wireless card directly. So I am thinking the driver will need 
to be a module in the kernel.
Amish

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joshua Wise" <joshua-NtISFavHD68j5TC/SZClsA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Amish Rughoonundon" <axr0284-H6Ufl4FQnQQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <kernel-discuss-CN5wO63fgwogsBAKwltoeQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Kernel-discuss] Wireless driver discussion


> > my name is Amish. I am working on a project where I will need to access a 
> > wireless card directly (Create home brew routing protocol) to send and 
> > receive data bypassing the usuall tcp/ip protocol that comes with 
> > wireless modules these days. I will therefore need to create a module 
> > that talks to the wireless card directly and passes the information back 
> > to user application. I will also be working with wireless on PDAs. I 
> > currently have familiar 0.8.2 on an Ipaq h5555 Since I am very new at 
> > this, I am not sure to which mailing list I should subscribe or if this 
> > even falls under kernel discussion. I would really appreciate a 
> > suggestion from anybody about possible books or website that might be 
> > good for learning purposes. Thanks a bunch
>
> IP is done below the network interface layer. What part needs to be done 
> in kernel
> land for proof of concept? Just use raw sockets to inject packets onto the
> (virtual) wire -- or possibly, this could be even done inside broadcast 
> UDP
> packets.
>
> The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss issues specific to runninig
> the Linux kernel on handheld devices. If you have problems building your
> kernel-layer code, should you choose to do that, on a hh.org kernel, then
> this is the appropriate list to ask.
>
> joshua
>
>
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