Re: Wireless @ D.C. IETF

[Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>]

>>     Anyway,  hopefully   the good  people   who wrote  the BreezeCOM
>>     drivers for Oslo can be convinced to do the  same for the Nortel
>>     Networks cards!
>> AFAIK,  the drivers (on linux)  for the Breezecom cards were written
>> by a guy  from Ericsson and, last I  knew, the source  code for that
>> was not available.
> The source was available--at first it was only for the admin running
> the wireless LAN (he copied it onto my system and compiled it there,
> then deleted the source); but then they changed their minds and
> released it.  I think I've still got a copy if anybody's interested,
> but I imagine it's been improved since July (given the number of kernel
> hackers who were grumbling over it that week :-).

the point is that

  o many folk have kit that works now with what we have been using for
    some years

  o most folk who come to ietf have a very full dance card already, and
    have come to work, not to play with drivers

  o new stuff is nice, but old must also be supported

we have work to do, and the ietf net should be just a working appliance not
a technology experiment.

randy