driver question

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:32:21PM -0700, Prasad Venkata Boddupalli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In our experiments, we have setup a WLAN using a single Lucent AP-1000.
> The AP is configured with 2 lucent Silver pcmcia cards with the same
> network name. Our mobile stations run on Linux kernel 2.4 and use the
> 'wvlan_cs' driver (version 1.0.6). In the above setting, we would like to
> issue commands (to the wireless interface of the mobile station) via the
> device driver to selectively bind to one of the two wireless interfaces on
> the AP. We tried issuing the command
> 
>      iwconfig eth1 ap <mac address of one of the wireless interfaces>
> 
> It should have forced the mobile station pcmcia card to bind to the
> specified AP interface. However, we realized that the operation was not
> implemented. So, we were just wondering if the above limitation is in
> the device driver or is it much more fundamental. If it's the limitation
> of the driver, we would like to implement it and hence would require
> access to the firmware API's and the card details. Are these details
> accessible to everyone and if so, where can we get them ? A search on the
> orinoco web site hasn't yielded the required documents.

It's a limitation of the driver.  The limitation exists, because the
firmware API is not publically available, so the developers don't know
how to implement it :-(

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