On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 12:47 -0700, mabbas wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 19:01 +0200, Jiri Benc wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:49:35 -0700, mabbas wrote: > >> > >>> This patch indicate unassociated and radio off status > >>> in name field > >>> > >> NAK. > >> > >> Fix SIOCGIWAP handler instead. > >> > > > > Right; the _one_ place anyone should ever have to check for unassociated > > status is SIOCGIWAP. That's it. Lets not put stuff in two different > > places. If it's all 0s, all 4s (stupid prism) or all Fs (i forget who > > does that), it's invalid and you're not connected. > > > > About the worst thing we can start doing is having to parse arbitrary > > strings to find out driver/card status. That's the same problem with > > "<hidden>" which hope DIES DIES DIES with d80211. If the AP is hidden, > > then it has a _blank_ SSID, not hacked to "<hidden>". > > > > For radio off, that may be a legitimate thing that's not covered in WE > > yet. But isn't that the domain of SIOCGIWPOWER, or is that just used to > > set PM modes and not return current status? [1] > > > > Dan > > > > [1] which would seem like an oversight to correct in nl80211 > > > > > > SIOCGIWPOWER is for power save mode it has nothing to do with radio off, we > can > indicate radio off in txpower field i guess. I have question regarding > SIOCGIWAP. if > I do #iwconfig ap 00:13:23:87:150:150, wont iwconfig always show > 00:13:23:87:150:150 > for SIOCGIWAP regardless if we associated or not? can we display blank in > this case to > indicate not connected?
That's kind a hole in the WE API. In this case, I think, SIOCGIWAP should always return the BSSID of the current association, or none if there is no association. Doing an iwconfig ap xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx should make the driver internally locked to that BSSID, such that until you clear that lock, SIOCGIWAP should only show either that BSSID or 00:00:00:00:00:00. SIOCGIWAP should not return a valid BSSID when there is no association. Hopefully nl80211 can fix this omission in WE. Dan > Mohamed > > > > >> Jiri > >> > >> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
