Re: [Wirelessdriver-devel] Re: Wirelessdriver-devel digest, Vol 1 #58 - 1 msg

[Mike M. <mi...@ma...>]

Thanks for the reply Amanda... i've started checking out other projects 
to see how things are done. if anyone out there knows of any projects 
that would be a good example of this please let me know...
thanks,
mike


On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 08:31  PM, Amanda Walker wrote:

> Mike Marcucio <mi...@ma...> wrote:
>> I got the following info from robm(thanks for
>> the reply):
>>
>> "How does scanning work?  You issue RID FCE1 or FCE5 (but not both
>> together) and wait for a few seconds.  The system will return an info
>> frame containing the hosts and some info on them.  If you don't get
>> this, you can manually request it after 3 seconds."
>
> Unfortunately, scanning isn't even close to that simple.  It depends 
> on the brand of card and the revision of the firmware.  Intersil 
> firmware before 1.3.2 does it one way, 1.3.2 and up do it another way, 
> early Orinoco firmware does it a third way, and current Orinoco 
> firmware does it a fourth way.  They vary in how you kick off a scan, 
> whether or not you lose your current association to an AP while it 
> does the scan, how you gather the results, and what format the results 
> are in.  Some drivers provide an API that hides this complexity 
> "behind the scenes" for you, though.
>
> From a programming point of view, the simplest device to deal with is 
> probably an Orinoco card.  I can't give you a code snippet, but there 
> are some examples out there in various open source drivers for other 
> platforms.
>
>
> Amanda Walker
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek
> Welcome to geek heaven.
> http://thinkgeek.com/sf
> _______________________________________________
> Wirelessdriver-devel mailing list
> Wir...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wirelessdriver-devel
>