From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>,
John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 17:55:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <462A965D.9000708@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177193997.19554.1.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 00:12 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> Quoting Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>:
>>
>>> In ieee80211, the output of scan results lists channels rather than
>>> frequencies; however, NetworkManager needs frequency. This patch
>>> changes the output from channel to frequency.
>> The driver can report both, and I think it should. This would make the iwlist
>> output a bit longer, but kernel drivers shouldn't be written to make userspace
>> program generate pretty output.
>
> I'm trying to remember why NM cares about frequency, and I think it's
> for ad-hoc mode; but wpa_supplicant didn't historically support a
> "channel" configuration parameter and so you can't create adhoc networks
> with NM right now anyway... What's the failure mode?
In the KDE NM applet, the frequency is listed as 0.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-21 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-21 4:07 [PATCH] ieee80211: Output frequency rather than channel in scan results Larry Finger
2007-04-21 4:12 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-04-21 22:19 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-21 22:55 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-04-22 22:03 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-22 22:24 ` Larry Finger
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