Wi-Fi Stack With Atheros Driver Ready For Testing
After the exciting news of the Alpha 1 release, another bit of good news poured in. Colin Günther has been working on creating a Haiku WIFI stack for the WIFI bounty over at Haikuware. The stack, which he is creating as a part of his MSc Thesis, is currently a port of the FreeBSD 8.0 WLAN Stack. His further plans are described in his blog, where he writes about his progress.
Yesterday, he announced that the stack is ready for testing. One caveat: only the atheros driver is completed for unsecured networks. If you own such a wireless card, head on over to the call for testers on the Wi-Fi wiki. The atheros driver should cover most netbooks; here is a list of the supported devices. Colin left the following notes for those interested in testing:
What to expect of the WLAN-Stack:
- auto connect to an unsecured (open) WLAN
- wlan device will appear as an ethernet card
- full support of Haiku's network configuration utilities (Network preflet, ifconfig)
- no WLAN specific configuration utility (neither GUI, nor CLI)
- no listing of available WLANs
Comments
Re: Wi-Fi Stack With Atheros Driver Ready For Testing
I've had some very happy people browsing the net on their Asus netbooks :)
I've adjusted the URL to Colin's blog. Please update it to:
http://www.haikuware.com/blog/colin/
Also, I'm extremely pleased with all the donations that have been pouring in. The bounty is now $100 over the goal. I can't wait to forward the proceeds to Colin, and also for further development of the stack. Thanks to community members who donated and trusted :)
Re: Wi-Fi Stack With Atheros Driver Ready For Testing
It's working well on my EeePC 701!
My ISP is also providing open access to its internet boxes, with my personal authentications, so I can browse with Haiku almost everywhere they have a box (I authenticate within the browser) :)