wi(4) IEEE_80211_S_SCAN support?
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Wed Jul 20 05:03:15 GMT 2005
Craig Boston wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Okay, only after banging my head against the wall for a couple hours
> trying to figure out why wpa_supplicant doesn't like my old prism2 card
> (I'm pretty sure it can't do WPA but I just want to auto-assign WEP
> keys...), I think it's because the wi driver just doesn't implement the
> IEEE_80211_S_SCAN state.
>
> It wasn't until discovering that "ifconfig wi0 scan" just sits there
> doing nothing that I began to suspect the new wlan infrastructure.
>
> So, is anybody working on the wi driver currently? I'm game for taking
> a stab at implementing those but I don't want to duplicate any effort
> that's already underway.
>
> I also wanted to check because maybe there are some gotchas that
> resulted in it not being implemented in the first place :)
When I brought in the new net80211 code many months ago a certain person
promised he would take care of any/all wi problems. He vapourized and
noone else has stepped up. If you can take a crack at fixing wi I will
help you as best I can (my time is very short these days).
Sam
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