SoftMac

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* TODO: finish this page. Reorganise the content in a better way.

Note: the purpose of this page is to offer some historical information about the softmac layer, as there was a softmac ACX port at some point. It is recommended that new drivers do not use this wireless stack anymore, but the new mac80211 (aka as Devicescape and formerly known as d80211 and dscape) instead, which was included in the 2.6.22 kernel. Note that the ACX mac80211 driver is still an out-of-tree driver. The latest mac80211 port of the ACX driver can be found here.

See a short introduction to the softmac layer

The SoftMac version of the ACX driver (acxsm) was going to have WPA support, but due to its slow development pace, it was eventually superseded by the mac80211 driver when this new stack was adopted in the kernel. In any case, it all started with this patch.

The source code can still be found at John Linville's 2.6.x wireless networking tree. 

* TODO: update the previous link, IIRC the code was moved to the wireless-legacy repository.
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