[Click] Click with Wifi

[Roberto Riggio]

Hi,

in which way the wifi elements are binded to the madwifi drivers? Could 
you point me towards some resources that explain that?

Thanks

John Bicket wrote:
> 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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