Re: [Aironet] 802.11 frames (SMP test solicitation)

[Bryan D. P. <bd...@cs...>]

Unfortunatly, while I have an SMP machine, I don't have a PCI adapter for
the aironet card (I do all of my wireless work from a laptop).  So I don't 
have any way of testing out the SMP locking stuff for you.

Alas, this idea sounds like the way to go.  If it's working on single
processor machines at this point, would you mind posting your diffs (or
sending them directly to me, if you prefer).  I can provide testing on a
single processor machine...and using this driver we should be able to
release a library that will build all of the 802.11 frames
automatically in the near future.

-bryan


On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Benjamin Reed wrote:

> I have been playing around with creating a slave device for doing 
> 802.11.  I think I have mostly got it working.  The idea is that the 
> driver registers eth0 and wifi0.  eth0 does ethernet and wifi0 does 
> 802.11.  This resolves the transmit problem.  For packet reception I'm 
> thinking that 802.11 data packets will go through eth0 and the rest go 
> through wifi0.  I finally got it mostly working last night.
> 
> We currently have a problem:  Javier did a revamp of some of the locking 
> code that has not been checked in because we haven't been able to test 
> on SMP.  I have a leap support patch and now this wifi patch waiting 
> behind the locking patch Javier did.  Our normal SMP tester is busy with 
> his real job, so is there anyone else out there with an SMP machine that 
> could bang on Javier's new driver?
> 
> thanx
> ben
>