From ACX100/ACX111 wireless network driver project

[edit] Background

Advanced generic wireless stack derived from the version originally developed by Devicescape (also see the Open Wireless Project), which was donated to the community under the GPL license.

After an initial version called d80211 (aka as dscape or Devicescape) being developed under John Linville's wireless networking development tree (see also the development tree for the mac80211 wireless stack) and a subsequent renaming to the current mac80211, this stack was initially integrated into Andrew Morton's mm kernel tree, and ended up being included in the 2.6.22 version of the mainline Linux kernel, officially starting the deprecation of the current SoftMac layer.

Note that unlike the old SoftMac port (available from the Linville's 2.6.x wireless networking tree), the mac80211 ACX driver is not yet included in any of the aforementioned trees.

[edit] Development

• Currently the most active development efforts are happening at the git repository. In order to get a copy of the repo, and providing you've got git installed and you are familiar with it, you can issue the following command:

 git clone git://gitorious.org/acx-mac80211/mainline.git

Note: there is also an alternative developer's repository at http://acx100.erley.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=acx-mac80211.git

See some more mac80211 information from the Linux Wireless wiki

[edit] Building the mac80211 driver

You can find some instructions on building the driver here here. They are probably out of date, so keep checking this page. Updated content will be added soon.