AP scanning using Spectrum24 CF

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 02:51:23PM -0400, Jesus Molina wrote:
> 
> Jean,
> 
> After inspecting the raw data that the driver sends (using the DEBUG mode
> of the driver) I can see that the Symbol24 does send the AP in range, but
> the format is slightly different. The first 6 bytes are different, then
> MAC and ESSID, and at the end they PAD it with 17 bytes that i think are
> always the same. I will talk with moustafa and try to patch the driver to
> support symbol's format. Whenever I am done I will send an email to the
> list.
> 
> -Jesus

	This would be simply amazing !
	Note that there are two different ways to do scanning with
PrismII firmware, the Information Frame method (implemented in
orinoco.c) and the RID method (implemented in HostAP). On the other
hand, it seems that Lucent firmwares support only the Information
Frame method.
	My Symbol firmwares (regular Pcmcia kind) don't support the
Information Frame method (always return empty info frame), so my guess
is that it's a feature specific to the CF card (or recent firmwares).
	Keep me posted, I'm interested...

	Jean