Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 22:03:46 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Craig Boston <craig@xfoil.gank.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi(4) IEEE_80211_S_SCAN support? Message-ID: <42DDDB32.1080402@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20050720044904.GA59111@nowhere> References: <20050720044904.GA59111@nowhere>
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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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