get list of access point in range

David Gibson david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Thu Jul 25 10:06:01 EST 2002


On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:28:02AM +0200, Jonathan Heusser wrote:
> hi,
> 
> While looking at different orinoco wlan drivers for linux I never found
> an implementation of the SIOCGIWAPLIST ioctl request to get a list of 
> APs in range.
> (I found it only in one aironet driver [airo.c]..)
> Is this feature (?) not available for this card or how come it isn't
> implemented in any driver?

It's not implemented at the moment.  For a long time no-one knew how
to do it (NDA on the firmware documentation).  Now there are patches,
but I haven't had time to integrate them.

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