Linux Wireless

• Linux wireless support series - Baked: May 20 2011
• RFC: 802.11 DFS support on mac80211 and ath9k - LinuxCon 2011
• 802.11s on LInux mac80211 - LinuxCon 2011
• wmediumd for mac80211_hwsim - LinuxCon 2011

by Adrian Chadd:

• Inside the Atheros WiFi Chipset - Adrian Chadd - subtitle: how I learned to love the HAL - Defcon 2014. - ath9k DMA, PHY, MAC …
• The future of wireless networking - mobile, gigabit and beyond - Adrian Chadd - (2013) 802.11ac, 802.11ad, hybrid operating modes, aggressive mobile power saving, the challenges involved in building a network stack that will handle 1+ gigabit/sec throughput. FreeBSD/Linux/Atheros HAL.
• Wireless drivers (ath9k, HAL, BSD) - Adrian Chadd

Note: Adrian Chadd worked at Atheros for 18 months on chip bring-up and open source work. He worked with other Atheros developers to open source the USB firmware for the AR5513 and ath9k-htc hardware, as well as the AR9300 HAL, used by Linux and FreeBSD.

This is the list of available known wireless managers you can use in distributions

• NetworkManager - GUI based connection manager with wireless support
• wicd - Simple GUI based connection manager with wireless support
• connman - GUI based connection manager with wireless support, designed with embedded devices in mind

• wireshark - a packet analyzer
• kismet - an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system
• packetspammer- a mac80211 packet injection utility
• aircrack-ng - an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys intrusion testing program
• Test AP injection code
• horst - lightweight 802.11 wireless LAN analyzer

Please consider reading these sections to help developers help you more efficiently.

• Reporting bugs - How to report a bug
• Tracing mac80211 - how to trace mac80211
• wifi-test project - utilities to help test your wireless driver
• Understanding bug fix propagation - should help to understand the flow of a fix