Hmm. Well, I remember a discussion a few years back, someone wanted to
use some 802.11 cards to run an intercom I believe. I think they
scrapped the idea when they realized that much of the work involved was
done in the software driver, not in the hardware, thus making embedded
work pretty hard. I'm guessing it's a lot harder than regular 802.3,
because you have to deal with added things like spread spectrum,
encryption, and while I haven't studied it in depth, I would guess there
is something running even below TCP that deals with radio packet
sequencing.

Just my thoughts though, use at your peril :)

Josh
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"M. Adam Davis" wrote:
> I'd actually like more information about this, as I always considered
> 802.11 devices as simple packet devices - you give tham an ethernet
> packet, and they deliver it to all the other 802.11 devices in range.  I
> thought they took care of the physical layer completely.
>
> Is there something more to 802.11 devices that I wouldn't have to deal
> with on, say, an NE2000 ethernet card?

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