On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 17:55 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > Dan Williams wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 00:12 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote: > >> Quoting Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> > >>> In ieee80211, the output of scan results lists channels rather than > >>> frequencies; however, NetworkManager needs frequency. This patch > >>> changes the output from channel to frequency. > >> The driver can report both, and I think it should. This would make the iwlist > >> output a bit longer, but kernel drivers shouldn't be written to make userspace > >> program generate pretty output. > > > > I'm trying to remember why NM cares about frequency, and I think it's > > for ad-hoc mode; but wpa_supplicant didn't historically support a > > "channel" configuration parameter and so you can't create adhoc networks > > with NM right now anyway... What's the failure mode? > > In the KDE NM applet, the frequency is listed as 0. Haha. Ok. NM should be smarter about this and convert channels returned by the driver into frequencies. In the end, I prefer frequencies where at all possible, because channel numbers are _not_ unique (unless you use the the tuple of [standard, band, channel] where standard is something like "802.11" or "802.16", band is "a" or "bg"). Dan Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
