output of ifconfig list scan
Jeroen Hofstee
freebsd.questions at virtualhost.nl
Thu Apr 30 15:10:51 UTC 2009
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>> It appears that the tool assumes SSID are reported as
>> SSID<session>, which is not the case here. My list is similar as listed
>> in the handbook,
>>
>> Looking at ifconfig, it appears to me that the ieee80211 part queries
>> the kernel and prints the returned values.
>> I therefore assume that there are drivers, which report the session as
>> SSID<session> instead of session directly.
>>
>
> Whatever <session> means it is either not supported by NDIS or not implemented
> in ndisulator.
>
Perhaps I should explain my question a bit better. The <session> is just
mentioned as an example.
With the ndiswrapper the wifi is working proper and lists the available
network (only mine shown), e.g.
SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
DV201AM 00:13:d4:7a:16:b1 1 54M -51:-96 100 EP
....
The wificonfig tool _assumes_ the output of ifconfig would look like.
SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
SSID<DV201AM> 00:13:d4:7a:16:b1 1 54M -51:-96 100 EP
....
My question is if there are wifi drivers which report the SSID like
this, instead of reporting them
directly as in my case and if so how the output is formatted in that case.
Hope this clarifies my question a bit.
Jeroen
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