Re: looking for wireless speed/signal meter

Matt Peterson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jim, Please follow-up with Sam Leffer <[email protected]>, he's merging in
efforts from NetBSD, see
<http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-sept-2002-oct-2002.html#Wireless-Networking-Status>.

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 08:44:00AM -0800, Jim Binkley wrote:
> 
> doesn't that work with prism2 only; i.e., not lucent.
> It's in 4.7 with prism2 only.

Correct, I don't think monitor mode for Hermes (Lucent Orinoco) has been
ported into FreeBSD yet.

> Although given wicontrol -L working with prism2, I might as 
> well make a wscan 2.0 when I can get around to it.
> 
> It would be nice at some point to know why certain Lucent/Orinoco
> card firmware CAN support sending a probe and getting back
> N APs, and (possibly?) some cannot?  Anybody have any clues on that,
> or what firmware can do it, and what can't? 

Once this is added to FreeBSD (correct me if I'm wrong, I don't think it
exists, since dstumbler doesn't work with my Lucent card 6.16.01 f/w), I
can trial-n-error various f/w versions to expierment.  It would also be
nice to play around with IBSS-n-pals.  Warners favorite mode ;)

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