Re: madwifi wext compliance ticket

["Eli Criffield" <elicriffield gmail com>]

yeah i could see enhancement instead of defect, but I'd like to see it
major instead of minor. But then my problems are always deserve major
status and anything else is minor right? :)

Eli

On 3/14/06, Derek Atkins <warlord mit edu> wrote:
> 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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