Linux Wireless summit II
Earlier this month the Linux Wireless summit II, following the number one form 2006, took place in London. Main topics were the current state of the new WLAN stack fro Linux as well as the reasons for the still slow adoption of Linux by hardware vendors.
The WLAN situation on Linux sucks - at least from a technical point of view. Every driver has its own subsystem and is integrated into the kernel on its own. There is no common ground. That’s dumb and makes it quite difficult to import new drivers because first of all a new driver developer would have to decide which of the current possibilities of the other drivers he adopts for his own driver. Also, a specific driver which sucks even more is the Intel 3945 driver, which needs a proprietary user space daemon. So far the current state.
The summit took place in London, and I have the feeling the news didn’t really got around about that. Anyway, Stephen Hemminger and Daniel Drake have two detailed summaries of the summit.
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