net80211 wireless stack. This work is based on the March 2009 D3.0 draft
standard. This standard is expected to become final next year.
This includes two main net80211 modules, ieee80211_mesh.c
which deals with peer link management, link metric calculation,
routing table control and mesh configuration and ieee80211_hwmp.c
which deals with the actually routing process on the mesh network.
HWMP is the mandatory routing protocol on by the mesh standard, but
others, such as RA-OLSR, can be implemented.
Authentication and encryption are not implemented.
There are several scripts under tools/tools/net80211/scripts that can be
used to test different mesh network topologies and they also teach you
how to setup a mesh vap (for the impatient: ifconfig wlan0 create
wlandev ... wlanmode mesh).
A new build option is available: IEEE80211_SUPPORT_MESH and it's enabled
by default on GENERIC kernels for i386, amd64, sparc64 and pc98.
Drivers that support mesh networks right now are: ath, ral and mwl.
More information at: http://wiki.freebsd.org/WifiMesh
Please note that this work is experimental. Also, please note that
bridging a mesh vap with another network interface is not yet supported.
Many thanks to the FreeBSD Foundation for sponsoring this project and to
Sam Leffler for his support.
Also, I would like to thank Gateworks Corporation for sending me a
Cambria board which was used during the development of this project.
Reviewed by: sam
Approved by: re (kensmith)
Obtained from: projects/mesh11s
Note this includes changes to all drivers and moves some device firmware
loading to use firmware(9) and a separate module (e.g. ral). Also there
no longer are separate wlan_scan* modules; this functionality is now
bundled into the wlan module.
Supported by: Hobnob and Marvell
Reviewed by: many
Obtained from: Atheros (some bits)
list of Atheros-based cards from ath(4). The online list is
always more up to date, anyway.
This invalidates:
PR: docs/95360
Submitted by: Erik Nordstr:om Andersen <erik@erik-n-andersen.dk>
o note all pci/cardbus parts are supported (modulo hal updates)
o use ath_rate_sample instead of ath_rate_onoe
o note SuperG support is missing
o note WPA not supported on 5210
o remove stuff about needing a better tx rate control algorithm
MFC after: 3 days
the v2 card is a TI. Since we're not attempting to keep this list
complete, removing this is best.
Reported by: Brian Candler <B dot Candler at pobox dot com>
Evan Dower <evantd at hotmail dot com>
MFC After: 1 day
- Mark up each item in the device list with .It, as per mdoc(7) and to
make it simpler for auto generated Hardware Notes to parse the manual
page.
MFC after: 3 days
