From owner-freebsd-mobile Sat Jan 6 3:20:47 2001 From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 03:20:46 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9084237B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 03:20:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dmlb.org ([62.253.135.85]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20010106112040.ODEJ6427.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@dmlb.org>; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:20:40 +0000 Received: from dmlb by dmlb.org with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 14ErOp-0008xY-00; Sat, 06 Jan 2001 11:20:39 +0000 Content-Length: 1159 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200101060246.f062k6s58572@harmony.village.org> Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 11:20:39 -0000 (GMT) From: Duncan Barclay To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: Lucent Wavelan and 4.2 works like a charm. Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Peterson Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06-Jan-01 Warner Losh wrote: > In message Matt > Peterson writes: >: I imagine one day maybe the merge of an/wi/awi will follow, *shrug*. > > I don't any more than I see a merge of the ed, ep and sn drivers. > > Maybe we might want to have a better set of 802.11 routines, ala the > if_ethersubr.c (if_80211subr.c), but to be honest I've not taken a > close look at things to see if this makes sense or not. From looking at how the awi driver and what I know the ray cards need it would be very useful to have code to handle management packets. These is needed for authentication etc. The drivers for aironet and wavelan don't seem to do this stuff - I assume the firmware does on these. I think that if we did do a common layer adding AP functionality would be possible. Another things that would be useful is a generic signal level and antenna cache. > Warner Duncan --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message