Re: [PATCH 01/19] orinoco: Add ESSID specific scanning for Agere fw

[Dave <kilroyd@googlemail.com>]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 19:43 +0100, Dave wrote:
>> That said, what's wrong with the ap_scan=2 mode? You've stated it's
>> not great (and I'm prepared to believe it), but what is the actual problem?

<snip explanation>

Thanks for that.

>> I had a reread of <http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/devel/driver_wrapper.html>. 
>>
>> As a FullMAC driver without support for selecting the BSSID to associate
>> with (or frequency in Managed mode), the only way I can see to make the
>> driver work with ap_scan=1 is to silently ignore the SIOCSIWFREQ and
>> SIOCSIWAP. I don't think this is an approach I would want to pursue.
> 
> Well, the current orinoco driver returns "success" (0) for SIOCSIWAP on
> Agere firmware.

borken dkilroy # dmesg | grep eth1
eth1: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0002
eth1: Station identity  001f:0001:0008:0048
eth1: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.72
eth1: Attempting to download firmware agere_sta_fw.bin
  <snip fw download>
eth1: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0002
eth1: Station identity  001f:0002:0009:0030
eth1: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 9.48
  <snip capabilities>
eth1: ready
eth1: orinoco_cs at 0.0, irq 11, io 0x0100-0x013f
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)

borken dkilroy # iwlist eth1 scan essid MONTY
eth1      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:18:4D:06:45:76
                    ESSID:"MONTY"
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:5
         <snip detail>

borken dkilroy # iwconfig eth1 ap 00:18:4d:06:45:76
Error for wireless request "Set AP Address" (8B14) :
    SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.

borken dkilroy # iwconfig eth1 ap off              
borken dkilroy #


The above is running with my patchset, but I haven't touched the SIOCSIWAP handler. Honest.

I'll have a think.


Dave.