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Comparison of open-source wireless drivers. Wireless network cards for computers require control software to make them function ( firmware, device drivers ). This is a list of the status of some open-source drivers for 802.11 wireless network cards. Location of the network device drivers in a simplified structure of the Linux kernel.
Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductor chips for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. The company was founded under the name T-Span Systems in 1998 by experts in signal processing and VLSI design from Stanford University , the University of California, Berkeley , and private industry.
A RTL8139C chip as seen on a broadband adapter for a Sega Dreamcast video game console Notable Realtek products include 10/100M Ethernet controllers (with a global market share of 70% as of 2003) and audio codecs ( AC'97 and Intel HD Audio ), where Realtek had a 50% market share in 2003 and a 60% market share in 2004, primarily concentrated in ...
Miracast is a wireless communications standard created by the Wi-Fi Alliance which is designed to transmit video and sound from devices (such as laptops or smartphones) to display receivers (such as TVs, monitors, or projectors). It uses Wi-Fi Direct to create an ad hoc encrypted wireless connection [ 1] and can roughly be described as " HDMI ...
Wi-Fi Protected Access. Wi-Fi Protected Access ( WPA ), Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 ( WPA2 ), and Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 ( WPA3) are the three security certification programs developed after 2000 by the Wi-Fi Alliance to secure wireless computer networks. The Alliance defined these in response to serious weaknesses researchers had found in the ...
Qualcomm Incorporated (/ ˈ k w ɒ l k ɒ m /) [2] is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Diego, California, and incorporated in Delaware. [3] It creates semiconductors, software, and services related to wireless technology. It owns patents critical to the 5G, [4] 4G, [4] CDMA2000, TD-SCDMA and WCDMA mobile communications ...
The Remote Network Driver Interface Specification ( RNDIS) is a Microsoft proprietary protocol used mostly on top of USB. [ 1] It provides a virtual Ethernet link to most versions of the Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Multiple revisions of a partial RNDIS specification are available from Microsoft, but Windows implementations ...
lwBT is an open source lightweight Bluetooth protocol stack for embedded systems by blue-machines. It acts as a network interface for the lwIP protocol stack. It supports some Bluetooth protocols and layers, such as the H4 and BCSP UART layers. Supported higher layers include: HCI, L2CAP, SDP, BNEP, RFCOMM and PPP .