Documentation#

Here we start documentation for users for all new wireless utilities. The list is short, but we’ll try to add more as we go.

External links#

YouTube links#

Linux wireless support series - Baked: May 20 2011
RFC: 802.11 DFS support on mac80211 and ath9k - LinuxCon 2011
802.11s on LInux mac80211 - LinuxCon 2011
wmediumd for mac80211_hwsim - LinuxCon 2011

by Adrian Chadd:

Inside the Atheros WiFi Chipset - Adrian Chadd - subtitle: how I learned to love the HAL - Defcon 2014. - ath9k DMA, PHY, MAC …
The future of wireless networking - mobile, gigabit and beyond - Adrian Chadd - (2013) 802.11ac, 802.11ad, hybrid operating modes, aggressive mobile power saving, the challenges involved in building a network stack that will handle 1+ gigabit/sec throughput. FreeBSD/Linux/Atheros HAL.
Wireless drivers (ath9k, HAL, BSD) - Adrian Chadd

Note

Adrian Chadd worked at Atheros for 18 months on chip bring-up and open source work. He worked with other Atheros developers to open source the USB firmware for the AR5513 and ath9k-htc hardware, as well as the AR9300 HAL, used by Linux and FreeBSD.

Wireless managers#

This is the list of available known wireless managers you can use in distributions

Wireless sniffers / intrusion testing / packet injection utilities#

wireshark - a packet analyzer
kismet - an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system
packetspammer - a mac80211 packet injection utility
aircrack-ng - an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys intrusion testing program
Test AP injection code
horst - lightweight 802.11 wireless LAN analyzer

Helping users and developers#

Please consider reading these sections to help developers help you more efficiently.

To the very curious user#

In case you want to read up on what things are being advanced within Linux wireless. This should help users become familiar with our latest developments.