February 2009
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Short break (updated)
For those of you wondering why there hasn’t been any update for a long (in internet) time: I’ve actually not been working much on the drivers for the past 2-3 weeks or so, private life took priority. In a couple of days I should be back to ‘work’ and coding will resume full-force.
Those asking when it will be finished: If I were not on this short break, there would...
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Small update about power management and...
Just a small update: I removed the ability to turn the hardware on/off using Airport utility. It was causing random KP’s which I don’t want to debug right now, and would probably need a lot of code restructuring. So instead of stalling at that point I simply return a status of “On” and if the operating system asks us to turn the device on/off, the driver returns “not...
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Scan manager classes disassembled
Someone by the ID dong disassembled the IO80211Scanner and IO80211ScanManager classes for us, down to the implementation source code in C++. Big thanks! This is going to be really useful.
In other news there hasn’t been much progress apart from a couple of minor changes and restructuring of the code to make it easier to proceed. Now that we are at a crucial juncture (1500 lines written,...