From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
To: Thomas Munck Steenholdt <tmus@tmus.dk>
Cc: hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.3 orinoco.c patch to support ethtool get_link
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:53:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040312185356.GA5591@bougret.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4052063F.9020107@tmus.dk>
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 07:49:35PM +0100, Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote:
> Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote:
> >Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> >
> >> I hope you realise that most often link status is meaningless
> >>with Wireless cards. In Ad-Hoc mode, the link is always up, regardless
> >>of the number of nodes in the cell, check the discussion on the HostAP
> >>mailing list. And the Orinoco card will report connected even is WEP
> >>is wrong. But, if you only use managed mode without WEP, that should
> >>work.
> >> I just wonder if it's better to report a 'link status' that
> >>may be wrong/misleading or to not report anything at all.
> >
> >
> >Actually, if the WEP key is wrong(i guess that's what you mean) the
> >link is determined as down, like it should be!
> >
> >For the AdHoc mode, sure the link is always determined as up, but that
> >is really the best way to do it given the nature of an Ad-Hoc network,
> >right!
> >
> >The way I see it you'll gain from this patch whenever in managed mode.
> >Most people (in my experience) is using managed mode and thus would
> >benefit from this functionality!
> >
> >Thomas
> >
> >
>
> Please comment on this ?
>
> I feel it's a really good idea that would improve things for me a lot -
> I'm sure I'm not the only one!
>
> Thomas
You need to talk to the driver maintainers. They have some
mailings lists.
Jean
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-12 18:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-08 18:52 [PATCH] 2.6.3 orinoco.c patch to support ethtool get_link Jean Tourrilhes
2004-03-09 22:12 ` Thomas Munck Steenholdt
2004-03-12 18:49 ` Thomas Munck Steenholdt
2004-03-12 18:53 ` Jean Tourrilhes [this message]
2004-03-16 0:14 ` David Gibson
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2004-03-07 1:49 Thomas Munck Steenholdt
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