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From: Tristan <9p-st@imu.li>
To: <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] wifi interface
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:43:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2579c7.b6c4656c.fWVN.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2579c7.a4dbcdb6.srLn.mx@tumtum.plumbweb.net>

> USB: Marvell 88W8388 aka olpc (probably not what you're looking for)

oh, and on that note:

said wireless driver is much nicer now (though far from perfect or
complete) and still in contrib/tristan/libertas.tgz.

the wavelan driver uses the ctl file in the connection (`{cat clone}/ctl)
to manage association and such (if i'm understanding correctly). i find
that fairly annoying to use and generally unintuitive.

i'm inclined to extend the ethernet interface an etherx/ctl file that
accepted commands along the lines of ssid, bssid, and channel to
configure the connection. did the wavelan driver not do this for a reason
beyond changing devether? any better ideas?

my guess is that the strongest argument against that is that wavelan does
it the other way and consistancy is important.

enjoy,
tristan

-- 
All original matter is hereby placed immediately under the public domain.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-21  5:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-21  3:12 [9fans] known working wifi cards Stanley Lieber
2012-03-21  3:40 ` Tristan
2012-03-21  5:43   ` Tristan [this message]
2012-03-21  6:15     ` [9fans] wifi interface erik quanstrom
2012-03-21  7:01       ` Tristan
2012-03-21  7:03         ` erik quanstrom
2012-03-21 15:42 ` [9fans] known working wifi cards Richard Miller
2012-03-21 15:47   ` Stanley Lieber
2012-03-21 16:02     ` Richard Miller
2012-03-21 16:10       ` Stanley Lieber
2012-03-21 20:08         ` Jerome Ibanes
2012-03-22 13:59           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-03-22 15:44             ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-03-22 17:51               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2012-03-23  9:51               ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-03-23  9:51               ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2012-03-23 21:26               ` Ethan Grammatikidis

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