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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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