[BAT] Re: OS X?

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 19:59:01 -0700

Ed,

Yeah, I'm still working on it.. The project just expanded more than I
originally anticipated though. Basically, I decided that instead of
modifying WirelessDriver to work with bsd-airtools I'm going to port the
openbsd if_wi driver to darwin.

The basic goal of this is to create a fully *bsd compatible driver that runs
on darwin so that additions and fixes to the generic *bsd if_wi driver can
easily be merged into the darwin driver (this includes hostap support and
all of the other nifty features). The other downside/upside of this is that
you will be able to use wicontrol to configure your interface from console
as well as have basic ioctl compatibility with pretty much any *bsd apps
that utilize the if_wi driver. I'm also hoping that the framework that I put
together will aid in porting other generic *bsd drivers to darwin
(essentially the driver is just creating it's basic c++ hooks into the OS
and interfacing directly with the c driver functions to create a relay).

AirDriver should be finished soon, but I don't really want to give any
estimates since I'm a newbie when it comes to driver coding and c++ in
general. Just wanted to let everyone know that the project isn't dead and
that it's going to really kick ass when it's finished.

Cheers,
-h1kari

-- 
David Hulton <>
Senior Researcher, Dachb0den Labs
https://dachb0den.com

On 4/11/02 2:51 PM, "Ed Hintz" <> wrote:

> On 3/30/02,  thus spake:
> 
>> P.S. We should have darwin/os-x support in the next couple days, so send me
>> an email if you're willing to do some testing.
> 
>   Anything ever happen with this? I'm still very interested.
> 
> Peace,
> 
> Edmund A. Hintz              **|**     "You may say I'm a dreamer,
> Mac Techie, Unix Geek,      *  |  *      But I'm not the only one...
> Mac/Unix Consultant        *  /|\  *     I hope someday you'll join us,
> <>              */ | \*      And the world will live as one.
> '78 Westy                    *****      Imagine."
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> 
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