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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:26 +0200, Alina Friedrichsen wrote:
> > Hmm, I forgot one thing -- you may want to create an IBSS on a specific
> > channel, but still allow it scan for other IBSSes. I guess we need a
> > flag for that and not make "channel set" imply fixed channel.
>
> In cfg80211 an indication for channel auto select is needed for IBSS
> and _STA_ mode, to implement with it the old wext interface. If not
> set the channel shouldn't be changed. If you not want store this flag
> in cfg80211, you must store it in the channel functions of wext to
> have the same behavior like now.
That's not what I was referring to -- and wext doesn't actually allow
what I'm referring to afaik.
When you want to create an IBSS on channel 5, what do you do?
I think you have to
iwconfig wlan0 essid test
iwconfig wlan0 channel 5
iwconfig wlan0 ap off # clear fixed channel bit
which is ... weird. OTOH with mac80211 you can also say
iconfig wlan0 channel -1
but that's even more strange.
johannes
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> When you want to create an IBSS on channel 5, what do you do?
>
> I think you have to
> iwconfig wlan0 essid test
> iwconfig wlan0 channel 5
> iwconfig wlan0 ap off # clear fixed channel bit
>
> which is ... weird. OTOH with mac80211 you can also say
> iconfig wlan0 channel -1
Ah, there's "iwconfig wlan0 channel auto" as an alias for this, I guess
that's an acceptable way to do it.
johannes
Hello Johannes!
> Ah, there's "iwconfig wlan0 channel auto" as an alias for this, I gue=
ss
> that's an acceptable way to do it.
Yes, if you want join/assoc to a network regardless of the channel. If =
the channel is set to a different value then auto you only join/assoc n=
etworks on the same channel.
Something is needed to implement it with cfg80211.
Regards
Alina
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