From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 25 11:47:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 994D737B401 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:47:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from perrin.int.nxad.com (internal.ext.nxad.com [66.250.180.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C4043F18 for ; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:47:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@perrin.int.nxad.com) Received: by perrin.int.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A583B20F01; Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:47:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 11:47:00 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: Sam Leffler Cc: "M. Warner Losh" , b@etek.chalmers.se, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new wi driver Message-ID: <20030125194700.GA91522@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <1e4301c2bd82$03de8cb0$5a557f42@errno.com> <20030117.102821.89423323.imp@bsdimp.com> <20030124215212.GB1224@perrin.int.nxad.com> <1cd401c2c499$ceec0590$52557f42@errno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1cd401c2c499$ceec0590$52557f42@errno.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6CEB 1B06 BFD3 70F6 95BE 7E4D 8E85 2E0A 5F5B 3ECB X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > dstumbler uses WI_RID_SCAN_REQ to initiate a scan for AP's. This > required the application know whether it was talking to a > prims/wavelan/symbol card so was replaced by WI_RID_SCAN_APS which > provides a device-independent interface. I changed wicontrol to > deal with this; it would be good if dstumbler did likewise. > Otherwise I can look at adding a backwards compatibility entry for > WI_RID_SCAN_REQ. I've updated the sources with the new wlan request type and I'm not getting anyfurther than before. All of the bsd-airtools have all kinds of nifty hacks to support the various interfaces and quirks of each of the cards. I think I'm going to dable with the various bsd-airtools and update them to use the same interface that wicontrol does and see if I can't kill off as many card specific quirks as I can. -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message