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Re: Wireless support
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Thomas Schwinge |
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Re: Wireless support |
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Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:23:35 -0500 |
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Hi!
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 11:52:43AM -0200, Matheus Morais wrote:
> There exist support to run wireless cards in Hurd?
No, not yet.
> If no, its possible (with
> the currently workable system) design that kind of device driver to Hurd?
> Its already exists a lot of workable drivers in GNU/Linux and FreeBSD, its
> possible port them to work on Hurd?
Yes. The most straight-forward possibility would be to create glue code
for those driver frameworks, to embed them in GNU Mach. That's, for
example, how it is done for our current NIC support: glue code for Linux
2.0 drivers.
Maybe it would be enough to update the current glue code to get wireless
cards working (apart from firmware loading issues)? I don't know enough
about how they are handled in GNU/Linux or *BSD to give a definitive
answer.
Regards,
Thomas