[Ndiswrapper-general] Re: You can't always trust iwconfig

[Giridhar P. <pg...@ya...>]

Adrian Irving-Beer <wisq-ndis <at> wisq.net> writes:  
  
   
> I'm not sure whether the proper response to this is to put something  
> in the installation docs, or to change the code so that it reports  
> what the user told us until the Windows driver reports otherwise.  
  
NDIS sets the ssid only when the card is associated. So with ndiswrapper  
iwconfig reports ssid as 'off/any' until the card is associated. Once  
associated, ssid should be the ssid of the associated station (which would've  
been set earlier with iwconfig). I have added this info to Installation wiki  
sometime ago, but it may not be clear to all. This may be different from other 
wireless drivers, that show the ssid set whether or not currently associated.  
 
While on the topic of wiki: Some of the documents seem to have information 
that shouldn't be there (e.g., Distributions wiki has information about what 
cards work with what, which should be in List wiki). Some documents are laced 
with tidbits, along with names of contributors. This breaks continuity and may 
not really help the user. Please keep the documents as clear as possible; 
adding more details is good, but only if it helps someone. Also, please don't 
add names to corrections in the middle of documents. If you want, you can add 
your name at the end of document and refer your contribution. 
 
As someone suggested earlier, Distributions wiki is too long with extraneous 
information. Cleaning it up and splitting into multiple sub-pages (one for 
Debian, one for Fedora etc) would help. 
  
Giri