Re: madwifi wext compliance ticket

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Eli Criffield <elicriffield gmail com>:

> I opened a ticket at madwifi.org asking for compliance to wext 19 with
> the infomation from Dans email. It promptly got changed to "minor" and
> to "enhancement" instead of "defect".
>
> Anyone using madwifi should let them know that its important to fallow
> the standard and you would like this "enhancement" added asap. Add a
> comment to the ticket at
> http://madwifi.org/ticket/462

Not to be a pain, but if it were me and my project, I'd consider this
an enhancement request as well.  Include a patch yourself if you want
a more rapid inclusion in the driver.

A defect would be more like what I see with madwifi (-old) --- I've got
an a/b/g AP that has separate SSID's for the a and b/g networks, but it
uses the same Mac Address for both channels..   And even when I give it
the (a) SSID, it wont select the (a) network automatically every time.
I have to manually tell it to select iwpriv ath0 mode 1 to manually select
802.11a.  *grumble*

On a side note:  it would be "nice" if NM had a way for the user to specify
which 802.11 mode I wanted to use, so I could manually select (a) or (b/g).
This is particularly important when I go places where they use the SAME
SSID on both the (a) and (b/g) networks!

> Eli Criffield

-derek

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