> On 07/12/2012 03:49 AM, Gordon Ross wrote:
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Enrico <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
during our GSoC project I've noticed pcan and pwcl wifi drivers in
illumos-gate
[..]
However they don't support registering the net80211 door for wifi event
reporting which is now required for all wifi drivers. This can be added, but
i would like to have some feedback before doing unnecessary work.
Thank you.
This is not true anymore. pcan and pwcl, or other device drivers not supporting
wpa, do not need this addition.
With my latest changes, the driver events door descriptor id is sent via ioctl
to the net80211 modules, and it is stored in ieee80211com before the first scan
request is issued and cleared when STA disassociates. If the door id is 0, the
net80211 module will not try to report events and no errors are printed.
Now the door will not depend on a 'magic filepath' written or generated
somewhere in the code and is not attached to a filename. A door id depends an
specific connection attempt/interface instance and not on the device name.
It is also automatically revoked if wpa_s dies, when the wpa_s driver interface
is deinitialized or the wpa_s interface instance is deleted. We won't have
problems of already existing files or net80211 not finding the active door for
upcalls. If the state is DISASSOC or the corresponding ioctl was not sent yet,
no events are reported. (which means wpa_s is not listening yet or wants to
terminate the connection)
In this way yesterday i could delete all the ieee80211_register_door calls from
all device drivers. It was used to resisted the door path to ieee80211com based
on link name.
Best Regards,
Enrico
Do you know what level of support for these devices have in Linux?
(if any) or in FreeBSD? etc?
Thanks,
The Prism2 chipset is supported by the hostap driver.
("preferred for specialist applications such as packet capture.")
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_chipset.php?chipset=Prism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28chipset%29
The newer chipset Prism54 is not supported by our driver
This is the support table for Aironet chips:
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_chipset.php?chipset=Aironet
As Garret said, I think that also on linux these drivers are only for PCMCIA, so
the probably have some problems
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