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| ===== 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]] |
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| 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. |
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| ===== Wireless Utilities in OpenWrt ===== | ===== Wireless Utilities in OpenWrt ===== |