Re: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP

2006-09-16 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 16 September 2006 01:50, mabbas wrote: I see your point here, although some one will file some bugs against the driver about showing G while associating with B-mode AP. By the way how can you figure if the AP is B/G other than the rates? I don't think this will happen. This never

RE: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP

2006-09-16 Thread Simon Barber
with early G AP implementations - so the spec was changed. Simon -Original Message- From: Michael Wu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 10:05 AM To: mabbas Cc: Simon Barber; netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP On Friday 15

Re: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP

2006-09-15 Thread mabbas
Simon Barber wrote: Why is it necessary to set phymode to B? - a G client can connect perfectly well to a B AP. We need this information for rate scaling and we need to send the NIC different command depends on the AP connection type. Mohamed Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP

2006-09-15 Thread Simon Barber
Message- From: mabbas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 10:19 AM To: Simon Barber Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP Simon Barber wrote: Why is it necessary to set phymode to B? - a G client can connect perfectly well to a B AP

Re: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP

2006-09-15 Thread mabbas
, 2006 10:19 AM To: Simon Barber Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP Simon Barber wrote: Why is it necessary to set phymode to B? - a G client can connect perfectly well to a B AP. We need this information for rate scaling and we need to send the NIC

Re: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP

2006-09-15 Thread Michael Wu
On Friday 15 September 2006 19:50, mabbas wrote: I see your point here, although some one will file some bugs against the driver about showing G while associating with B-mode AP. By the way how can you figure if the AP is B/G other than the rates? IIRC, only 802.11g APs will send the extended

RE: [d80211] connecting to B-mode AP

2006-09-14 Thread Simon Barber
Why is it necessary to set phymode to B? - a G client can connect perfectly well to a B AP. Simon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mabbas Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 4:25 PM To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [d80211] connecting