From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Apr 16 20:27:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ambrisko.com (adsl-216-103-208-74.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.103.208.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1E1D37B43E for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:27:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko@ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by ambrisko.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f3H3Q4r64528; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:26:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200104170326.f3H3Q4r64528@ambrisko.com> Subject: Re: Use of if_ef for 802.11 interfaces? In-Reply-To: <3ADB66F3.66E60281@telehouse.ch> "from Andre Oppermann at Apr 16, 2001 11:41:07 pm" To: Andre Oppermann Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:26:04 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Brooks Davis , Andre Oppermann , Duncan Barclay , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andre Oppermann writes: | Brooks Davis wrote: | > | > On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:27:13PM +0200, Andre Oppermann wrote: | > > Nothing, maybe except that there is no IOCTL defined for "microwave | > > oven rubustness" (which is another way to say "don't fallback too | > > fast on transmission errors"). | > | > That's easy enough to add. I assume it's just a boolean or integer | > parameter? The interface supports 2^16-1 options so it's not going to | > be a real problem to add more. You just add a new #define at the end if | > sys/net/if_ieee80211.h and and entry in share/man/man4/ieee80211.4 | > describing what the heck it does. The interface also needs more status | > gathering functions to get signal strenght and the like for GUI tools. | | I'd say your patch is a very good starting point and framewort to | which everthing else, is desired, can be added later. | | PHK assigned himself to your PR with the patch but told me this | weekend that he'd hold back until (appearently) this discussion is | finished. IMO he can go ahead and commit it. I agree it should be commited. There are some implementation issues in the Cisco/Aironet driver that need fixing (not his fault, existing confusion and strangeness of the card). Getting this commited would reduce a level of complexity of patches that I'm maintaining for the Aironet driver. Also it will be interesting how we support LEAP that requires a user name passwd to be entered. I'm just starting to investigate that. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message