[Prism54-users] Status of Managment Functions ?

[Aurelien]

Hi,
I'm talking about the lasts cvs commits :
 - "iwlist eth1 scan" should show you a list of AP.
 - "iwconfig eth1 channel 1" is a probably a bad idea since the channel order is strange. The 5,4 GHz channel seem to be listed before the 2.4GHz (do a iwlist eth1 channel). Better use "iwconfig eth1 freq 2.412". It might also not work since we don't really have doc on the device to be more  precise.
 - setoid, getoid are depreciated.

	Aurelien
...And justice for all

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:52:32 -0500
"Jeff Bobzin" <jeff@boccorp.com> wrote:

> Would the developers be able to comment on the operational state of the management commands?
> 
> I do not see any effective external response to the common IWCONFIG commands - i.e. "iwconfig eth1 channel 1". Sometimes the card hangs, sometimes nothing happens as viewed by the site survey in the SMC windows utility .
> 
> The code is present in isl_ioctl_setfreq(), and a reasonable mgmt frame is formed, but the firmware does not respond.
> 
> Examining isl_pci_mgmt_initialize() (which does work), gives a hint that the card needs to be in 'manual' mode to recognize the commands. Without the chipset documentation I do not know if this is true.
> 
> The old setoid utility no longer connects. I never saw it change anything in earlier versions.
> 
> My application requires the ability to scan (iwlist eth1 scan) and change frequency and essid.
> 
> 
> Is this being worked on?  Any ETA? Any helpful suggestions? Anything we can do?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ---Jeff Bobzin
> 
> My test environment:
> 
> SMC 2802W PCI card.
> Cvs20031103 driver build
> Patched 2.4.22 kernel
> Wireless tools version 26
> 
> 
> 
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