On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:02:09PM +0100, Andy Green wrote: > >> I've read that Fedora and Ubuntu already are using the new driver models > >> (or something along those lines) so what's been the experience so far? > > mac80211 drivers work pretty well for iwl3945, bcm43xx-mac80211 and > zd1211rw-mac80211 that I have experience with. Good to hear! :-) > iwconfig to see the device state and to set option on it. Something to > be aware of: mac80211 insists the interface is down (meaning, eg, > ifconfig wlan0 down) before it can have its iwconfig mode set and to be > up before you can set the channel ;-) It also likes it better if you do 'iwlist wlan0 scan' before you ever do 'iwconfig wlan0 essid <ESSID>'. John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxx
