driver question

[Prasad Venkata Boddupalli]

I just got to lay my hands on the document, "IEEE 802.11 Network Adaptor
Design Guidelines for Windows XP". In that they talk about extended OID's
that let us configure the card. For example, the description of
OID_802_11_BSSID says:

....
Query: Returns the current AP MAC address
Set: Sets the MAC address of the desired AP
....

Does it mean that Microsoft is privy to some of the firmware API's for the
orinoco card. Or are they just placeholder's ? Can someone please throw
more light on that.

thanks,
Prasad.


On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, David Gibson wrote:

> 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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