hello
in my kernel config 2.6.23.12 there's already a mac80211 in menuconfig, well at least when i search for it, it actually doesn't seem to be there. I explain myself: when i am in menuconfig and I type '/' i can search for a string without the "CONFIG_" there I type MAC80211 and it finds several. when I go to the place it say it is it is not a mac80211, just ieee80211. I read that mac80211 was included in 2.6.22.

so what is the best thing to do?

thank you!

mario

Whoever wrote that may have been wrong. I'm running a 2.6.23.11 kernel and I had to patch it to get mac80211. I think it will be in 2.6.24 (although I reserve the right to be wrong) so you can either patch the kernel you're currently using or try out the 2.6.24 rc version at kernel.org. Or I suppose you could use git to get the latest wireless-dev kernel source and use that.

I'm not sure that the nomenclature around this is as clean as it could be. As far as I know, the "real" mac80211 that should be in 2.6.24 started life as the wireless stack contributed by Devicescape but it could be that the SoftMAC stack it will replace is using some of the same names.

it is written here, section 4.9.2 - the drivers

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_....802.11ag.html

mariogarcia is correct - mac80211 was included in 2.6.22; the first driver to actually use the stack was added in 2.6.23; and most of the others will go in with 2.6.24

Of course, there have been various changes, clean ups, etc to the mac80211 stack since, but it has been there for some time now.

Well, with the kernels I've patched, you select the wireless stack in the Networking -> Wireless. If it isn't there, then that particular kernel doesn't have the proper code.