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is in charge of the lower lever timings and does the timing sensitive work.
You can have a board that uses this controller from Imasde or Samsung,
or Nokia, or....
They will be very happy of selling a few of the boards.
----------------------- What is the target --------------------------
Our main goal is to have a STABLE system that can handle wireless channels
withouth giving even more money to Bill Gates.
The system should be remotely manageable (use telnet or modem to connect
to you Linux Box) and should be reliable with a rich networking
environment.
The system should also allow the use of normal machines (there is no
point to use a PPro for a router.
Beside we believe that innovation comes from small companies and thus
Linux is the only choiche for them (And Bill Gates should NOT do
dumping on its products by bundling everithing to the OS)
---------------------- What you need to do to -------------------------
All comes in source code, so you need a bit of knowledge to use this
BUT we hope to have documented things to a fair amount.
1) Get a working Linux system. This is fairly easy nowday.
2) Read the INSTALL.txt in this directory
-----------------
What the files are
wir802/wiramd.c , wiramd.h
Low level functions to glue to the AMD hardware.
The functions should allow to send / received data and mgmt frames...
wir802/wirdrv.c , wirdwrv.h
Low level funxtions in charge of managing the ieee 802.11 implemetation
This is the driver part that sits on top of the hardware.
wir802/wiruti.c , wiruti.h
Functions generally used to manage all the ieee 802.11 frames....
This kind of stuff is used by the high level program
This is also used by the driver...
wir802/wirproc.c
Functions used to manage the attaching to the /proc/net of devices
so it is possible to have a cleaner piece of code :-)
wirmgr/wirmgr.c
This program is the manager for the wireless connection for BOTH
STA and AP. It is in charge of finding STA or AP and doing the standard
processing for frames.
wirmgr/wirsnoop.c
Used to see what is on air. Of course it depends if you are in
promisquos mode or not.
Damiano
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Date: 23 Sep 1999 23:06:14 GMT
From: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
Subject: The Aplication Mantra
Hank Oredson <horedson@att.net> wrote:
> Gary suggested about $800 (each end) for a 56k link.
> I did the research this morning, and came up with the following prices:
> [reasonable sounding shopping list snipped]
> This will get you a reasonable signal on 70 cm at 56k baud.
> However the $1143 per link end is a bit more than Gary's $800,
> and quite a bit more than your "couple hundred".
indeed... :-)
there are some nice DSSS 802.11 cards comming out from lucent and
proxim in the 100-150$ range. they hit 11mbits/second over short (very
short) paths and 1 mbit/sec over longer paths. mebby with some proper
front end design we can reach gary's ideal BER and a little more ooph
on the TX to extend the working range.
I like this solution speed and price wise a little better than the 56k
solution. now, can we make it work?
--- eric
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Eric S. Johansson ka1eec esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us
This message was composed almost entirely using NaturallySpeaking
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Date: 23 Sep 1999 23:29:16 GMT
From: "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
Subject: The Aplication Mantra
Peter O. Brackett <ab4bc@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Eric:
> Hear, hear! So there others who believe that we would not be selling our
> souls if we did this. Thank God.
you are quite welcome. BTW, I never sell my soul, I only rent it.
> On UHF and uWaves where the frequencies can be used over and over again
> geographically and where we have bandwidth to burn, we petition the FCC to
> deregulate as much as possible. Let us be free to innovate. Don't restrict
> what we can carry on our digital networks as long as we are relaying the
> content of others. A proposal might be to allow individual amateurs and
> non-commercial, non-profit organizations to construct and operated radio
> access networks in these frequency bands. Allow these amateur radio access
> networks to interconnect directly to commercial networks like the Internet
> with no restriction other than that the amateur radio access networks cannot
> make a profit. Any content carried on the network to be the responsibility
> (both legally and ethically) of the initiator of the content. If it happens
> to be illegal content, then enforce against the originators, not the network
> and access operators!
maybe use a cost model like that of repeater clubs. you join and you
get access to the autopatch (ie internet). maybe providing internet
access in underserved communities is a new definition for public
service.
BTW, for "longer haul" vhf links, we have huge chunks of soon to be unused
spectrum in the form of analog TV channels which could be the home for
SS data backbones. think about that!!
--- eric
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Eric S. Johansson ka1eec esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us
This message was composed almost entirely using NaturallySpeaking
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:12:49 -0700
From: "Hank Oredson" <horedson@att.net>
Subject: The Aplication Mantra
Eric S. Johansson <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us> wrote in message
news:7sfpbg$t5a$1@harvee.billerica.ma.us...
> Hank Oredson <horedson@att.net> wrote:
> > Sounds interesting. Do you have a pointer to the specs?
> > I'll poke around Lucent's web site a bit ...
>
> start at:
> http://www.proxim.com/symphony/
>
> from http://www.proxim.com/about/pressroom/1999pr/sym_pricing.shtml
>
> PRICING AND AVAILABILITY
>
> Symphony is sold for an estimated retail price of $129 for the
> Cordless ISA Card (from $149), $149 for the Cordless PC Card (from
> $199), $249 for the Cordless Modem (from $299), and $399 for the
> Cordless Ethernet Bridge. The Cordless Ethernet Bridge is now
> available through Ingram Micro, Tech Data, selected retailers and
> mail-order catalogs, as well as the Proxim web site. The Cordless PCI
> Card will be available in September for an estimated retail price of
> $129.
>
> 802.11 neworks don't seem to be right for point to point links but
> seem reasonable for point to multi-point. there is some linux code
> for making linux be an 802.11 controler but I have no way of
> evaulating it at the moment. from the readme there are some
> interesting leads on parts...
Thanks for all the info.
Filed in my "future projects" file, along with the growing 56k info.
--
... Hank
http://horedson.home.att.net
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:39:09 -0700
From: "Hank Oredson" <horedson@att.net>
Subject: The Aplication Mantra
Eric S. Johansson <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us> wrote in message
news:7sebp6$r4v$1@harvee.billerica.ma.us...
> Hank Oredson <horedson@att.net> wrote:
> > Gary suggested about $800 (each end) for a 56k link.
> > I did the research this morning, and came up with the following prices:
>
> > [reasonable sounding shopping list snipped]
>
> > This will get you a reasonable signal on 70 cm at 56k baud.
> > However the $1143 per link end is a bit more than Gary's $800,
> > and quite a bit more than your "couple hundred".
>
> indeed... :-)
>
> there are some nice DSSS 802.11 cards comming out from lucent and
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