[ros-kernel] 802.11 Wireless LAN support...

[Alex Ionescu]

Jonathan,

Since 802.11 is still basically TCP/IP networking and follows the exact 
same NDIS standards, nothing else is needed except the .sys driver. Of 
course, you will still require user-mode DLLs/applications to 
communicate with the card through the driver in order to set up WEP, 
Channel, SSID, etc.

But for ReactOS to support WiFi, all we need is good NDIS support and 
the ability to load the driver...everything else will be managed by the 
driver/user-mode tools itself. OF course, we could implement Zero-Config 
Wireless (maybe you were referring to that) to have a global way to 
access/modify WiFi data, but I think that's a bit far off for us still :)

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

Jonathan Wilson wrote:

> Can someone versed in the internals of windows networking tell me 
> which functions/components/dlls/drivers/etc are used for 802.11 WiFi 
> in windows?
> (other than the actual .sys file for the WiFi NIC of course)
>
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