Re: Bluetooth - OK, wifi - no way?

Didi wrote:

Quite a different story with wifi - to an extent I begin to think there is something I don't get, some general standard I have not read
or whatever.

I suspect you're looking at the same problem that causes support for WLAN hardware in open-source OSes to be so tricky.

The general rule you're missing is that there are some WLAN regulations regarding use of frequency bands and encryption which, according to the general consensus, can only be met by having large parts of the processing done not by firmware, but by run-time selectable drivers. The higher-level drivers acquire the location of the machine, and tell the DSPs which frequency bands are off-limits.

Summing it up, WLAN has a "no simple implementations possible" rule built right into its design.
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