Developer Documentation
This section adds documentation for Linux wireless developers.
Contents
Advances in Linux wireless
A lot of development effort has been underway with Linux wireless in the last couple of years.
Wireless-Extensions
Wireless-extensions is the first framework developed to add support for wireless devices on Linux.
- Wireless-Extensions documentation
= mac80211 =
- mac80211 documentation
cfg80211
The new driver configuration interface, together with nl80211 it is intended to replace Wireless-Extensions.
- cfg80211 documentation
nl80211
The new userspace <–> kernelspace wireless communication transport.
- nl80211 documentation
Glossary
All terms we may use in this wiki which developers should be familiar with.
- Glossary