Re: atho support

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 14:53 -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > There are a couple issues that are fixed in the new madwifi-ng, but most
> > everything is smooth.
> > 
> At this point does network-manager have support to take advantage of
> madwifi-ng's ability to scan for networks actively while maintaining a
> connection?

NetworkManager isn't going to special-case drivers.  Either the driver
does what it does in accordance with the kernels Wireless Extensions
API, or that feature essentially gets ignored.  That's the way its going
to be.  If more cards can do this, then we need to extend the WEXT API.

NetworkManager just calls ioctl() SIOCSIWSCAN followed by SIOCGIWSCAN to
gather the results, like any Linux app does.  If the madwifi-ng can hold
the connection while it performs the SIOCSIWSCAN scan, then everything
will be fine.  If not, then madwifi-ng needs to get on the bandwagon and
make stuff work with Linux.

Dan