WLAN Linux Driver Development Training (Instructor led )

This course is designed for freshers or professionals who want to learn WLAN driver or wifi driver development in detail.  This course covers WLAN Linux driver concept from basic to advanced level with the practical example. This course covers theoretical as well as practical aspect of WLAN driver.

Course Outline 

Module 1:

• The Hello World Module
• The Kernel Symbol Table
• Major and Minor Numbers
• Some Important Data Structures
• Char Device Registration
• Open and Release
• Memory Usage
• Read and Write
• Procfs
• User space and kernel space communication.

Module 2:

• IOCTLS
• Netlink Sockets
• Kernel Timers
• Tasklets
• Workqueues
• Spinlocks

Module 3:

• Network Drivers
• The net_device Structure
• Device registration
• Opening and Closing
• Packet Transmission
• Packet Reception
• The Interrupt Handler
• SKB operations.
• packet queuing using TAILQ macro.

** Mini Project using module 1, 2 & 3.

Module 4:

• 802.11 modes
• 802.11 a/b/g/n channel and freq
• Scanning
• 802.11 MAC Fundamentals
• 802.11 Framing in Detail
• WDS
• 802.11n Features.

Module 5:

• mac80211
• cfg80211
• User application to get the radio information.
• User application to get the list of access point (scanning).
• User application to get the associated stations information.
• Performance testing between 2 devices(AP and STA).

** FINAL PROJECT

About Trainer 

Trainer has  6+ years of rich experience of working for Linux wifi drivers on many Qualcomm Chipsets.