Hello!
I would like to start tinkering with some network kernel module programming, mostly for my own amusement. I was wondering if there is such a thing as a well-documented API and/or data sheet/specification of some wifi chipset? That is, can someone recommend some particular chipset where the chip-vendor actually went out of their way to provide some good data on their chipset. Doesn't need to be state-of-the-art. I just want to look at that driver with the data and get a feel for the stuff. My impression is that many vendors don't really provide that much of data, if any?
Also, as a side-note, I was curious, is there some similar tool like linux-uml for FreeBSD. Or some other tool that sort of gives me a sandbox within FreeBSD? It would help when I do some kernel programming and I segfaults and what-not on my system. Nice to just be able to restart the sandbox instead of rebooting the machine. I looked at Jails but from my understanding it's not really intended for this sort of thing.
Best Regards
/bmildh
I would like to start tinkering with some network kernel module programming, mostly for my own amusement. I was wondering if there is such a thing as a well-documented API and/or data sheet/specification of some wifi chipset? That is, can someone recommend some particular chipset where the chip-vendor actually went out of their way to provide some good data on their chipset. Doesn't need to be state-of-the-art. I just want to look at that driver with the data and get a feel for the stuff. My impression is that many vendors don't really provide that much of data, if any?
Also, as a side-note, I was curious, is there some similar tool like linux-uml for FreeBSD. Or some other tool that sort of gives me a sandbox within FreeBSD? It would help when I do some kernel programming and I segfaults and what-not on my system. Nice to just be able to restart the sandbox instead of rebooting the machine. I looked at Jails but from my understanding it's not really intended for this sort of thing.
Best Regards
/bmildh