802.11 Planet: Linux Scrapes PC Out of WLAN Equation

“April 15th will be an important day for Musenki Solutions’
founder Jim Thompson, and not because it is a tax filing deadline.
Jim Thompson, and his co-founder Kem McClelland, will remember
April 15th as the day that they shipped the beta of their
Linux-based, WLAN access point (AP) solutions.

“The broadly predicted move towards the use of Linux in embedded
devices and mobile solutions was initially covered in my colleague
Michael Hall’s article entitled “WiFi and the Penguin: Setting Up
802.11b Under Linux,” which was published in January, 2002.

“In November, 2000, McClelland and Thompson founded Musenki
Solutions to bring Linux into the 802.11 market – for many of the
same reasons that Linux is typically popular amongst developers and
solutions providers: It’s smaller, cheaper, and more flexible than
any other option. As open-source software, it is a given that the
firmware in the Musenki APs and whatever other solutions they
develop will be freely available to all users…”

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