Free wireless usb adapter for debian software for linux

Driver for USB Wireless LAN adapter based on the Atmel AT76C503/505A chipsets. Well matched to popular Micronet SP907BB adapters. It has less problems and better results than known atmelwlan driver from sourceforge.net.
Currently, the driver has some limitations:
no promiscous, monitor or station mode and no support for libpcap, i.e. it does not work with Kismet or Airsnort and it cannot act as an WLAN access point. This is a restriction imposed by the currently firmware
The firmware for Intersil radios is old (Atmel doesnt update it anymore) and has more restrictions. See the chipsets page for more information.
Support for 2.6.x kernels is now in main tree (versions 0.13+).
It has been tested with the usb host controller drivers usb-uhci, uhci and usb-ohci. It also works with more than one adapter on one
Enhancements:
- added switch to cope with Intersil firmware 0.84.0 which does not send FCS in rx data
- new module at76c503-rfmd-acc.o for SMC2664W, which got RMFD radio, but need a special firmware (Accton OEM products).
- added regulatory domains MKK1 and Israel
- added rudimentary ethtool support for SuSEs future hotplug
- added nickname ioctl for iwconfig
- added test of valid channel in reg. domain
- added big endian patch (by Kevin Cernekee), changed defines in ieee802_11.h
- supress unsupported iwconfig modes (monitor, master) - patch by Pavel Roskin

The Linux Wireless Extension and the Wireless Tools are an Open Source project sponsored by Hewlett Packard (through my contribution) since 1996, and build with the contribution of many Linux users all over the world.

The Wireless Extension (WE) is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs. The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as the driver support Wireless Extension).

Another advantage is these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the driver (or Linux).

The Wireless Tools (WT) is a set of tools allowing to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. They use a textual interface and are rather crude, but aim to support the full Wireless Extension. There are many other tools you can use with Wireless Extensions, however Wireless Tools is the reference implementation.

iwconfig manipulate the basic wireless parameters
iwlist allow to initiate scanning and list frequencies, bit-rates, encryption keys...
iwspy allow to get per node link quality
iwpriv allow to manipulate the Wireless Extensions specific to a driver (private)
ifrename allow to name interfaces based on various static criteria

Most Linux distributions also have integrated Wireless Extensions support in their networking initialisation scripts, for easier boot-time configuration of wireless interfaces. They also include Wireless Tools as part of their standard packages.
Wireless configuration can also be done using the Hotplug scripts and distribution specific support, this enable the proper support of any removable wireless interface (Pcmcia, CardBus, USB...).

Any versions of the Pcmcia package offer the possibility to do wireless configuration of Pcmcia and Cardbus card through thefile wireless.opts. This allow to fully integrate wireless settings in the Pcmcia scheme mechansism. However, this method is now deprecated in favor of distribution specific methods.

Please note that the Wireless Tools (starting with version 19) supports fully IEEE 802.11 parameters and devices, support older style of devices and most proprietary protocols, and are prepared to handle HiperLan as well. More recent versions of course adds more 802.11 support.

But, unfortunately not all drivers support all these features...

Service menus for Debian package contains Konqueror service menus for Debian users. It was developed and tested on Debian Etch.
This package contains the modified versions of the following service menus from kde-apps.org:
1. Alien Tool by Kaisermart
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Alien+Tool?content=33523
Use alien functions in a servicemenu. (Modifications: Improved apparence, different location in context menu.)
2. Debian Service Menu by Redclay
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Debian+Service+Menu?content=16536
Simple kde service menu for managing debian packages. (Modifications: uses Konsole instead of x-term, kdesu instead of sudo for non-root users.)
Actions included:
- Install (dpkg -i)
- Uninstall (dpkg -r)
- Info (dpkg-deb -I && dpkg-deb -c)
- Installed files
- Changelog (changelog.gz)
- Changelog Debian (changelog.Debian.gz)
3. Root Actions Servicemenu by Kubicle
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Root+Actions+Servicemenu?content=48411
(Modifications: Edit with KWrite and Open root Konsole here options were added.)
Actions included:
- Open (with default application)
- Run from here
- Run in Konsole
- Edit with KWrite
- Edit with Kate
- Edit with KHexEdit
- Open in Konqueror
- Open (root) Konsole here
- Change owner to root
- Change owner to user
Enhancements:
- More actions for root (Open with default application, Run from here, Run in Konsole)
- Fixed dependences
- Architecture independent .deb package

wireless-applet is an GNOME Panel applet displaying available wireless networks with the ability to add a listed network to the system configuration easily.

Brings the comfort of NetworkManager to wpa_supplicant users. Supports WEP, WPA-PSK, and open wireless networks.

Class::Adapter is a Perl implementation of the "Adapter" Design Pattern.

The Class::Adapter class is intended as an abstract base class for creating any sort of class or object that follows the Adapter pattern.

What is an Adapter?

The term Adapter refers to a "Design Pattern" of the same name, from the famous "Gang of Four" book "Design Patterns". Although their original implementation was designed for Java and similar single-inheritance strictly-typed langauge, the situation for which it applies is still valid.

An Adapter in this Perl sense of the term is when a class is created to achieve by composition (objects containing other object) something that cant be achieved by inheritance (sub-classing).

This is similar to the Decorator pattern, but is intended to be applied on a class-by-class basis, as opposed to being able to be applied one object at a time, as is the case with the Decorator pattern.

The Class::Adapter object holds a parent object that it "wraps", and when a method is called on the Class::Adapter, it manually calls the same (or different) method with the same (or different) parameters on the parent object contained within it.

Instead of these custom methods being hooked in on an object-by-object basis, they are defined at the class level.

Basically, a Class::Adapter is one of your fall-back positions when Perls inheritance model fails you, or is no longer good enough, and you need to do something twisty in order to make several APIs play nicely with each other.

What can I do with the actual Class::Adapter class

Well... nothing really. It exist to provide some extremely low level fundamental methods, and to provide a common base for inheritance of Adapter classes.
The base Class::Adapter class doesnt even implement a way to push method calls through to the underlying object, since the way in which that happens is the bit that changes from case to case.

To actually DO something, you probably want to go take a look at Class::Adapter::Builder, which makes the creation of Adapter classes relatively quick and easy.

Class::Adapter::Builder is a Perl module that can generate Class::Adapter classes.

SYNOPSIS

package My::Adapter;

use strict;
use Class::Adapter::Builder
ISA => Specific::API,
METHODS => [ qw{foo bar baz} ],
method => different_method;

1;

Class::Adapter::Builder is another mechanism for letting you create Adapter classes of your own.

It is intended to act as a toolkit for generating the guts of many varied and different types of Adapter classes.

For a simple base class you can inherit from and change a specific method, see Class::Adapter::Clear.

Ad-hoc Wireless Distribution Service (AWDS) is a Layer 2 routing protocol for wireless mesh networks. The project provides transparent Ethernet-like access to all participating nodes, thus easily allowing the employment of different higher level protocols like IP (with DHCP), IPv6, AppleTalk, ...

A Linux implementation of AWDS can be downloaded from our download section. Ports to other platforms are highly appreciated!