Talk:Comparison of open-source wireless drivers

message: why is the openHAL website dead?
is openHAL dead and unmaintained?
:There's more information about OpenHAL at http://madwifi.org/wiki/OpenHAL. Ceros 18:31, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  OpenHAL 4 linux

message: However, these charts tend to be very biased to or against certain platforms, and are prone to be out of date as soon as people will agree upon terms and a layout long enough for it to stick.  Just seems like a waste of time doing these big comparisons rather that keeping individual os pages containing this info up to date.  I really do think the time and effort would be much more useful keeping up a master list of open source projects and then working to keep them up to date.  One size does not fit all.  Any author that knows a lot about one project isn't going to know a lot about the others and it just invites flames from people that disagree and generates tons of wasted posts on other related newsgroups which takes away from the image of Wikipedia in my opinion. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by M Scheliga (talk • contribs) .
:I sort of agree with this. Comparison of operating systems is one thing, but this profusion of "Comparison of open source X" seems to be going a bit far, especially ones that are a bit ugly, poorly structured, easily go out of date, and are of minority interest. NicM 09:36, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm all for expanding opensource info... 

message: http://kerneltrap.org/node/4118
why revert back:
*false information such as atheros card that doesn't have a firmware
*bad presentation...you must give 2 informations at once:
**technical information about the firmware
**the freeness of the firmware
the technical information can be divided in parts:
*on-board firmware
*loadable firmware
*no firmware at all
the freeness include:
*the distribution of the firmware if it is loadable
*if there is free firmware such as freemac
example:
remplace yes by:
*no firmware
*redistribuable loadable firmware
*non-redistribuable loadable firmware
*loadable firmware avaliable with a contract
*on-board firmware
keep the (1) for the free firmware
if you want change  by  and  by 
:From the point of view of this page, I'm not sure why the difference between "no firmware" and "on-board firmware" is interesting; in both cases, "N/A" would seem to suffice, unless there's an issue of firmware updates from the vendor (i.e., you don't need to load the firmware at boot time, but you might need to load it on an update). Guy Harris 07:50, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  firmwares and expert

message: I have deleted the following text (added by User:00 tux). as it is inappropriate for an article page.
PLEASE REVERT CHANGES BEFORE THE MOOVE TO FREE FIRMWARE AND PLEASE USE TAKL PAGE(TO THE USER)  REASON:FALSE INFORMATION AND PRESENTATION EXAMPLE OF FALSE IFORMATION:ATHEROS DOESN'T USE A  FIRMWARE AT ALL!!!
LVC 22:29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: there is 2 kind of drivers for the ralink cards on linux
the rt2x00 that is a new and experimental driver
rt 2400,rt2500,rt61 and rt73 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.27.13.176 (talk) 00:07, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ralink 

message: There are several stacks in linux
we could add the stack used by the drivers
i have 2 examples:
*rt2500 use a stack that is in the kernel
*the rt2x00 use the deviscape stack
*madwifi use a stack that is in the kernel
*dadwifi use the deviscape stack —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.27.13.176 (talk) 20:21, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, somebody could do so.  Anybody who wants to could add it as a column, using Template:dunno, and then people who know which stack a particular driver uses could fill the column in. Guy Harris 18:43, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deviscape vs others  

message: [Please leave this comment on the talk page. It is not appropriate for the main article]
Please cite sources for the others answer than no in for the firmware. See also the firmware section of the talk page for the migration from yes, no, N/A to a more informative version, example are in the talk page, atheros driver has been migrated.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Diego (talk • contribs) 16:05, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment moved from main article

message: Not strictly about the artice, but the table list this as working, however I can't connect to my 802.11b only AP resulting in the access point resetting itself. There is also an open bug report noting people can't connect to theirs 802.11b AP's. Has anyone here had any luck getting it to connect to an 802.11b only AP?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.136.35.53 (talk) 12:59, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: iwlwifi 802.11b network

message: NetBSD 5.0 was released just before OpenBSD 4.5 and FreeBSD 7.2. There are new driver: iwn(4) and zyd(4), but rum(4) that appeared in 4.0(?) is still missing here, too. I try to keep FreeBSD and OpenBSD current, but just do not follow NetBSD enough to fill in all entries. I wonder if I should copy the entries from OpenBSD or FreeBSD, as that is where the driers are ported from -- but if no one checks if the information really apply for NetBSD, it is not worse having entries with many question marks. The Linux entries are not always correct, either, since the documentation is not as good as for the BSD, but at least there is hope for people reading it and fixing mistakes. There are a few options for NetBSD, if no one editing this article is really interested in it: 1. Leave it as it is, since there is not claim of completeness. 2. Mark it as outdated. 3. Copy lines of missing drivers with properties from OpenBSD and mark properties with question marks. 4. Put in lines with just the names to indicate that there are drivers missing, but no one cared to research their properties in detail. 85.177.244.33 (talk) 17:15, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NetBSD outdated 

message: :Comparison of open source wireless drivers → Comparison of open-source wireless drivers — like Open-source software — Neustradamus (✉) 18:19, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussion moved to Talk:List of free and open source software packages#Requested move. Jafeluv (talk) 16:01, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: I would do it myself if only I could... 85.77.178.237 (talk) 07:49, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make tables sortable 

message: There is no legend explaining what the colors mean. What do the colors mean by the way?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pelliott11 (talk • contribs) 08:04, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Legend  

message: would be nice to have information if a particular driver has VAP support which is necessary to have more than SSID per radio  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.1.54.62 (talk) 15:05, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  VAP support 

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message: Originally from "Driver capabilities" section:
Also see wireless.kernel.org
Please note: This sections needs to be split in softMAC and hardMAC drivers. All softMAC drivers should have the same capabilities regarding encryption, since it is done by hostapd.
Then we should copy/extend http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers because it lists all the available modes of operation: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/modes 
Then we should think about documenting, whether a driver can support multiple modes simultaneously and which ones.
* AP mode
* Monitor mode
* IEEE 802.11s --Arzg (talk) 04:18, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
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message: can we add some text to tell how to find out what driver a user is using? Jackzhp (talk) 17:00, 17 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: How to find out what driver I am using?

message: It looks like content of website wireless.kernel.org were moved to new domain wireless.wiki.kernel.org. Current links points to 404 pages.
I'm going to replace all links http://wireless.kernel.org to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org . --Alexey Vazhnov (talk) 14:20, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Probably some other changes should be done, like here. Does anybody want to do it? --Alexey Vazhnov (talk) 14:35, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move links wireless.kernel.org → wireless.wiki.kernel.org 

message: WPA3 Personal (SAE) isn't listed in the tables as a column, but ought to be since there might be hardware dependencies on its support? Also ought to list DPP.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smithkennedy (talk • contribs) 18:15, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add newer AKM support (WPA3 Personal, DPP) 

message: I'm not familiar with this yet and have just the smallest issue.
The link at References 16 gets a html 404 error.
https://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/firmware.php?fid=2 KDAM71 (talk) 18:45, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link