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6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Bill Paul
7694cd9368 Correct the alignment of some of the members in the wi_frame structure.
The structure is the right length, but some of the members (notably
wi_q_info) were off a bit. This causes the received signal strength
values to appear bogus.
1999-07-20 20:03:42 +00:00
Bill Paul
049e649a10 Add support to wicontrol(8) and wi(4) for enabling and configuring
power management. This will only work on newer firmware revisions; older
firmware will silently ignore the attempts to turn power management on.

Patches supplied by: Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu>
1999-05-07 03:28:54 +00:00
Bill Paul
e566363ef1 Modify wicontrol(8) and wi(4) to allow setting the frequency of the
WaveLAN's radio modem. The default is whatever the NIC uses since NICs
sold in different countries may default to different frequencies. (The
Lose95/LoseNT software doesn't let you select the channel so it's probably
not really meant to be changed.)
1999-05-06 16:32:45 +00:00
Bill Paul
c49713fde1 Fix some byte ordering problems; I was storing string lengths wrong,
which was causing wicontrol to crash when reading string parameters
from the WaveLAN.

Patches submitted by: Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu>
1999-05-06 03:34:02 +00:00
Bill Paul
31a08ab08e Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA
adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol
utility to manipulate some of the card parameters.

This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light
library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly
because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross).
The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF
library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has
just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone
with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would
have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary
too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary
HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.)

Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have
only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on
BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with
an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results
to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00