Many new cards, like other new components, do not have GPL-compatible drivers provided by vendors or drivers developed by the open source community are not yet mature enough to be included in the kernel. Therefore, these drivers are provided as modules and some of them will eventually be added in future kernels when they are completed. One of the most famous drivers is ipw2100 [3] to map Intel PRO / Wireless 2100 as part of the Intel Centrino ® technology that is installed on many laptop computers. In this section, the author will introduce the driver installation ipw2100. Read more
Once you have a wireless network installed on your computer, the first step is to install the driver and make it work. A map wireless network implements the functions of the physical layer (PHY) and the sub-layer control media access (MAC) as specified in at least one series of protocols IEEE 802.11 while the pilot controls the map and provides other interfaces specific management of the wireless network. Read more
In this article, the author talks about the drivers of several WLAN cards fairly widespread and some problems such as authentication based on 802.1x.WLAN (IEEE 802.11b/a/g) are becoming increasingly popular as wireless devices become cheaper and more and more organizations providing wireless access to their personal or to the public. Almost every new laptop has a wireless card integrated and older have a network card wireless misbehavior. Even desktop computers may have WLAN cards, USB, even WLAN integrated. Read more
if you want general information base on tcp / ip, then I recommend you look at the following documents: an introduction to TCP / IP this document is both in text and version postscript.administration TCP / IPce document located on both a text version and a postscript. If you are looking for more detailed information I recommend you warmly: Inter networking with TCP / IP, Volume 1: principles, protocols and architectures, by Douglas E. Comer, ISBN 0-13-227836-7, Prentice Hall publications, 3rd edition, 1995. If you want to learn how to write network applications in an environment compatible Unix, I recommend you also warmly: Unix Network Programming by W. Richard Stevens ISBN 0-13-949876-1, Prentice Hall Publications, 1990. Read more
There are many places where you can find good information on the Linux network. Alan Cox, the current maintainer of the Linux code network maintains a web page containing the main points of the current network and new developments at: www.netguido.com. Another good source is a book written by Olaf Kirch entitled Network Administrators Guide. It is a work of the Linux Documentation Project and you can read an interactive on Network Administrators Guide HTML version or you can get it in different formats via ftp: Read more
Develop a new implementation kernel of the whole protocol tcp / ip, quality, and walk as well as existing products, was not an easy task. The decision not from an existing implementation was taken at a time when there was a doubt about any restrictions on copyrights, because of U.S. court decisions, and at a time when there were many enthusiasm to do differently and perhaps even better than what had been done before. Read more