Re: Direction of wireless networking in Fedora ( was RE: Wireless update to ifup and network-functions )

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 02:33:21AM +0100, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> distributions because for reasons purely political (as far as I can
> tell???) the promisc mode was left on the cutting room floor !!! WHY
> !!!!

Promisc mode (on those adapters that support it) is actually rather
complicated in the wireless world. A lot of the old prism firmware doesn't 
support it for example. OpenAP has to basically take over the h/w at a much
lower level to handle that and that involves a native 802.11 stack - which
oddly enough is the direction that stuff is going