From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Tourrilhes Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.3 orinoco.c patch to support ethtool get_link Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 10:53:56 -0800 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040312185356.GA5591@bougret.hpl.hp.com> References: <20040308185242.GA18367@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <404E4159.9040404@tmus.dk> <4052063F.9020107@tmus.dk> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au, netdev@oss.sgi.com, Jeff Garzik Return-path: To: Thomas Munck Steenholdt Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4052063F.9020107@tmus.dk> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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