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docs:guide-user:network:wifi:wireless.overview [2023/05/02 14:40] – [Wireless drivers available in the OpenWrt repository] fix broken links zetagodocs:guide-user:network:wifi:wireless.overview [2023/06/22 22:24] – [Wireless Drivers in OpenWrt] Grammar and capitalization memicinn19
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 ==== Regulation in law ==== ==== Regulation in law ====
-Available FrequenciesBands and Channels are subject to regulation in each state.+Available frequenciesbands and channels are subject to regulation in each state.
 Please see: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sforshee/wireless-regdb.git/tree/db.txt Please see: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sforshee/wireless-regdb.git/tree/db.txt
  
  
 ===== Wireless Drivers in OpenWrt ===== ===== Wireless Drivers in OpenWrt =====
-Wireless drivers are pulled on a more or less regularly basis from [[http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-testing.git/|wireless-testing]] and the OpenWrt-patches which are not mainlined yet are adjusted, see e.g. [[https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/36939/trunk|r36939]]. +Wireless drivers are pulled on a more or less regular basis from [[http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-testing.git/|wireless-testing]] and the OpenWrt patches which are not mainlined yet are adjusted, see e.g. [[https://dev.openwrt.org/changeset/36939/trunk|r36939]]. 
-OpenWrt does not use Kernel drivers. The package is called mac80211.+OpenWrt does not use kernel drivers. The package is called mac80211.
   * [[https://dev.openwrt.org/log/trunk/package/kernel/mac80211|history of commits to OpenWrt trunk regarding mac80211]]   * [[https://dev.openwrt.org/log/trunk/package/kernel/mac80211|history of commits to OpenWrt trunk regarding mac80211]]
   * [[https://dev.openwrt.org/search?ticket=on&q=mac80211|tickets on mac80211]], better is a custom query in [[wp>Trac]]: e.g. [[https://dev.openwrt.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&description=~mac80211&max=20&order=priority|custom query]]   * [[https://dev.openwrt.org/search?ticket=on&q=mac80211|tickets on mac80211]], better is a custom query in [[wp>Trac]]: e.g. [[https://dev.openwrt.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&description=~mac80211&max=20&order=priority|custom query]]
  
-Similar work (brand new drivers for older Kernel) is done by the [[https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page|backports]] project [[http://marc.info/?l=linux-backports&m=136490878702448|April 2013 announcement]], previously called compat-wireless or compat-driver. OpenWrt does not use this, despite referencing it by name.+Similar work (brand new drivers for older kernel) is done by the [[https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page|backports]] project [[http://marc.info/?l=linux-backports&m=136490878702448|April 2013 announcement]], previously called compat-wireless or compat-driver. OpenWrt does not use this, despite referencing it by name.
  
 ===== Wireless Utilities in OpenWrt ===== ===== Wireless Utilities in OpenWrt =====
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