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Re: Wireless support
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Thomas Bushnell BSG |
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Re: Wireless support |
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Mon, 16 Jan 2006 12:14:14 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Matheus Morais <matheus.morais@gmail.com> writes:
> There exist support to run wireless cards in Hurd? 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?
There is no particular difficulty; wireless cards look just like
ordinary ethernet to all the higher-level stuff.
However, I do not think gnumach has support for any. There is also no
infrastructure for the special wireless things you might need to do
(like setting an ESSID and such).