Wi-Fi implementation/documentation

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Wi-Fi implementation/documentation

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Hello, everyone!
I have only way to use internet, Wi-Fi. Even I don't need Wifi drivers in emulators. But I want to run my OS on real hardware and do networking. Only way for me to use networking (or internet) on my operating system is to implement Wi-Fi drivers. Where can I find Wi-Fi programmer's guide or Wi-Fi drivers source code?
I have 802.11n Broadcom network adopter.
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As always, look for the datasheets. If you must, Linux has drivers, but reading drivers designed for other platforms seems like more trouble than it's worth.
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I have a broadcom chip, but the thing is incredibly finicky and only ever wanted to work properly with certain revisions of the closed source drivers for linux. GRR :x

Times might have improved in the most recent releases though but so far every kernel or wireless-related update broke it.
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Love4Boobies wrote:As always, look for the datasheets. If you must, Linux has drivers, but reading drivers designed for other platforms seems like more trouble than it's worth.
Where can I find such a datasheets?
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[-o< PLEASE, learn to use Google, PLEASE [-o<
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no92 wrote:[-o< PLEASE, learn to use Google, PLEASE [-o<
Google is not a silver bullet. Often there are plenty of sites with a content somewhat related to the question, but after reading many of them it is clear that there's no data sheets or anything useful for driver development. If somebody knows a direct link to the datasheet location it will save our readers a lot of time for analyzing those useless sites.

But if there is no data sheet location knowledge among the community, then, of course, we should google for ourselves. And after the sheet is fount it will be great to have some means to share the link somewhere in the wiki or wherever an osdever can find it quickly.
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Google is usually where I start (at least, in the past). But I've found that a lot of the spec sheets that you may need can be found in the documentation for various open source Operating Systems, and Virtual Machines. They will either have the PDF files, or will have information about how to find them.

For example:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kerne ... umentation

I've also uploaded most of the spec sheets that I've collected here:
http://ozone.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest

Look under OZone/OZone/Documentation
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