Senao Wireless Hidden SSID

[Luiz Otavio Souza]

Daniel,

Sorry, i'm wrong about that.
The hidden ssid ready driver is in OpenBSD (see WI_RID_ENH_SECURITY in 
if_wi_ieee.h).
The NetBSD porting is just an auto rate fix.
The ifconfig support is in 6-CURRENT (or in the patch for 5.X).

[]s
Luiz

On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Daniel Dias Gonçalves wrote:

> Luiz,
>
> NetBSD 2.0 have mode HIDDEN SSID in ifconfig and wi(4) ?
> Who is porting the NetBSD wi driver ? Has a page of the patch?
> Has some HACK  to wi driver on FreeBSD as that one that force TX RATE:
>
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> http://excamera.com/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi
> Sun, 16 May 2004
>
> *wi hostap fix, kind of*
> I spent a few hours tinkering (tampering?) with this driver, and have a fix. 
> I've verified that it works: my download speed went up from 170 kbytes/sec to 
> 470 kbytes/sec, which is what I'd expect on an 11Mbps network. If anyone's 
> interested, here it is: The Intersil manual on page 4-28 says that transmit 
> packets need to have their TxRate field filled in with 10,20,55 or 110, 
> depending on the transmission speed. The 4.X driver sets the field 
> tx_frame.wi_tx_rate in function wihap_check_tx(), called from wi_start(). The 
> 5.X driver calls this field frmhdr.wi_tx_rate, and leaves it zero. If you 
> want to run at 11MBps, add a line
>
>                 frmhdr.wi_tx_rate = 110;
>
> in wi_start(), just before the call to wi_write_bap(). (Obviously, this is 
> just a cheesy hack. The real code would have to find the actual tx rate. I 
> just want to point out where the problem lies).
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> []s Daniel Dias Gonçalves