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On 30 Jun 2013, at 13:25, Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> "how it works" is most scary part. As far as I understand, 802.11 =
standards
> are not freely-available. Or they are? I need to investigate it.


No, they aren't :-( That said, if you can look at the source code of =
mac80211/ath9k I think you could derive how it's supposed to work. I =
understand that it's a huge task.

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Rui Paulo