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What is the Linux WLAN project, anyway?

April 26, 2017linux project WLAN

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What is the Linux WLAN project, anyway?

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The goal of the Linux WLAN project is to develop a complete, standards based, wireless LAN system using the GNU/Linux operating system. What differentiates this project from the Linux wireless extensions and other Linux wireless projects is that we’re basing everything on the recently approved IEEE 802.11 standard. The WLAN package, originally written by Mark Mathews ( mailto:mark@absoval.com ) and maintained by AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. ( http://www.linux-wlan.com ), can be obtained from http://www.linux-wlan.org and contains a device driver and support utility for GNU/Linux supporting the Intersil reference design PRISM Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) Wireless LAN (WLAN) Adapters (PRISM cards for short). This design uses the PCMCIA interface and form factor. The PRISM card is an IEEE 802.11 compliant 2.4 GHz DSSS WLAN network interface card that uses the Intersil PRISM chipset for its radio functions and the AMD PCNet-Mobile chip (AM79C930) for its Media Access Controller (M