Re: [Prism54-devel] Re: [Prism54-users] Open hardware wireless cards

[lsorense@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 11:34:02PM +0100, Andriy Korud wrote:
> Sorry, as I know (no more details - NDA, sorry) some manufacturers are 
> developing (and planning to continue) FullMAC 802.11g (and further) chipsets 
> and also they are offering Linux drivers (however had no chance to test yet).
> 
> But from my point of view, SoftMAC cards are better sometimes - you have more 
> control from drivers and can implement some interesting features (for 
> example, madwifi Linux driver with MAC layer ported from xBSD). 
> 
> Any thoughts why we should prefer FullMAC cards over SoftMAC (except CPU 
> usage, of course)?

Embedded systems with low end cpus (to make less heat and use less
power) would prefer anything that uses less cpu and can be done in
dedicated (and usually simpler than the cpu) hardware.  Of course the
windows laptop and desktop market probably far outsells the embedded
market, for now at least.

Len Sorensen