Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 May 2008 10:03:47 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC] make wext wireless bits optional and deprecate them | From | Jean Tourrilhes <> |
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:24:46AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:16 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > Instead of testing for wireless/, best thing would probably be to call > > > SIOCGIWRANGE on the device and if it returns EOPNOTSUP then it's not > > > wireless. Some drivers may have to load firmware to figure out > > > supported rates and encryption capabilities, but to be honest, NM does > > > this to detect wireless devices and I haven't run into any issues in 4 > > > years using it. If there are issues with drivers, then we need to fix > > > the driver too. > > > > I was about to propose calling SIOCGIWNAME since that is what > > wireless-tools do and that linux/wireless.h indicates. > > Hmm; NAME is pretty useless. That's fine to do, I guess WEXT requires > that NAME return _something_ at least. NAME should never ever be used > for anything more, but since wireless-tools appears to do this that's > fine. > > Dan
It's not useless, it's supposed to tell you about the protocol capability of the device, like "IEEE 802.11b" or "IEEE 802.11abg".
Have fun...
Jean
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