[Click] Click with Wifi

[John Bicket]

Here is what is going on with the wifi elements:

We are moving the roofnet specific elements (the sr/*, sr2/* elements)
to a separate package. This will be posted in about a week or two.
The sr2 elements that were in the repository temporarily are basically
the same as the sr elements, except they handle byte-order correctly.
We named them sr2* so that in the future if we change the packet format
again, we can make sr3 elements and run configurations that are capable
of speaking both protocols.

Most of the basic wifi elements (like SetTXRate, WifiEncap, WifiDecap, etc)
are staying in the main wifi package, and those should work fine.
These elements currently only really work with atheros cards and the madwifi
(or madwifi-ng) driver. We don't really have any plans to make them work
with other cards, but if you are a reasonable device driver hacker it would take
a few days of work to add support to another wireless card if you are familiar
with the driver.


John

On 4/6/06, Bob Keyes <bob at sinister.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Jason Haas wrote:
>
> > I was wondering who's had success using wifi cards with click and if people
> > would share their setups?  (OS, kernel version, distro, wifi cards, driver
> > versions)
>
> I have found it to work, but without effort in some cases. Note that all
> of 'it works' will be for CVS from before APril Fools Day, because Click
> became broken at that point
>
> OS: Debian
> Kernel Version: 2.6.13.2
> Distro: Sarge
> WiFi Card: D-Link DWG-AG520
> Driver Version: Madwifi-NG as prepared for Sarge, from tu-bs.de
>
> Madwifi:
> I have problems associating to an access point by ESSID: I can select by
> AP Mac address though. Still not sure what's going on, and it's not the
> card - same exact card has no problems in Windows XP.
>
> Click:
> I am using this for RoofNet. Currently, support for roofnet has been
> removed, so I have been using versions from before April Fools Day, and
> RoofNet works once I take out all the references to non-existing elements,
> which are all in the SRCR2 protocol.
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