{"id":97,"date":"2006-05-07T11:58:18","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T11:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/05\/zd1211-news\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T00:18:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T00:18:26","slug":"zd1211-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/05\/zd1211-news\/","title":{"rendered":"ZD1211 news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have made a lot of progress since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/04\/zd1211-rewrite-driver-partially-usable\/\">my last post<\/a> about our <a href=\"http:\/\/zd1211.ath.cx\/wiki\/DriverRewrite\">rewritten ZD1211 USB-WLAN driver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monitor mode &#8211; the ability to spy on local network traffic with tools like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethereal.com\/\">ethereal<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Software encryption &#8211; we can now connect to encrypted (WEP + WPA) networks. Hardware-based encryption will be supported later.<\/li>\n<li>ZD1211B support &#8211; we now support the newer range of ZyDAS devices<\/li>\n<li>Improved RX performance<\/li>\n<li>Misc fixes and improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I managed to get in contact with some ZyDAS engineers, who are responsive and helpful via email. Thumbs up to them, I hope this level of communication can continue for future products beyond the Atheros acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>I have been spending time hacking on softmac (generic code layer which powers ZD1211, <a href=\"http:\/\/bcm43xx.berlios.de\/\">bcm43xx<\/a>, and a few other drivers). I fixed a few bugs, and am now working on finishing some of the incomplete functionality (such as shared key authentication, mixed mode protection and short\/long preambles).<\/p>\n<p>There is only one more thing we need to complete before we submit a basic driver for inclusion in Linux 2.6.18: automatic TX power calibration, so that we aren&#8217;t needlessly broadcasting our traffic over long distances when the access point is very close. This won&#8217;t be too hard once we have figured out how to decode the signal strength. The code in the vendor driver for doing this is quite cryptic, to say the least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have made a lot of progress since my last post about our rewritten ZD1211 USB-WLAN driver. Monitor mode &#8211; the ability to spy on local network traffic with tools like ethereal. Software encryption &#8211; we can now connect to encrypted (WEP + WPA) networks. Hardware-based encryption will be supported later. ZD1211B support &#8211; we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}