Linux Kernel Hacker
(Ph.D. studies)
At the moment I am transforming to a Linux kernel hacker. Frankly, this is
probably a little bit overstated. ;-) What really happened: For my research
work I needed passive scanning support for the Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 network
interface. After trying to understand how all the network related components
of the Linux kernel work, I figured out that the wireless tools already
support passive scanning. Furthermore, I found out that the driver for the
Pro/Wireless 2200 network interface did not support passive scanning. After
studying the source code for a while I concluded that I would be able to
enhance the driver with this feature easily. So, I started implementing
passive scanning and I created a patch that I send to the developer mailing
list. After making a few changes requested by the maintainer the patch got
accepted. That is really cool, isn't it?. ;-) See all the communication as
well as the patch in the mailing list's archive.
Posted by Thomas King
at 16:30 2006-08-06
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