wireless-ipw-power - does not detect wireless correctly (2.6.29)

[Alon Bar-Lev]

The following line at modules/wireless-ipw-power is not working properly:

 if [ -d $DEVICE/wireless -a -h $DEVICE/device/driver ]; then

 It looks like at least at 2.6.29 there is no wireless directory... I
 did not find anything unique in structure of a wired and wireless but
 the driver has channels.

 Maybe better to do iwconfig and check for wireless extensions?

 Another issue...

 Why doesn't ipw2200 has "iwpriv ethX set power Y" statement?

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs)]

This is another example why one shouldn't abuse the sysfs. sysfs was never meant to be used this way. And especially for frequent point release distributions like ubuntu/fedora, and rolling-release distributions like Debian, using sysfs will be a nightmare.

Anyway, I like the idea of using wireless-tools. I just did a brief check and found limitations with it. A bug and a patch has been filed here [1]. If the upstream author accepts, I'll change this from sysfs to something better, as time permits.

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526187

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs)]

Good news is that the patch has a positive feedback from upstream

[Alon Bar-Lev (alon-barlev)]

Something simple as:
iwconfig $interface | grep '802\.11' > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo wireless

???

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs)]

That'd still misbehave when the device is not associated.

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs)]

Fixed. Will be part of next release.

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs)]

1.49

[Faustus (orlovm)]

Just a comment.

config WIRELESS_EXT_SYSFS
    bool "Wireless extensions sysfs files"
    default y
    depends on WIRELESS_EXT && SYSFS
    help
      This option enables the deprecated wireless statistics
      files in /sys/class/net/*/wireless/. The same information
      is available via the ioctls as well.

      Say Y if you have programs using it, like old versions of
      hal.

See also #415719.

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf (rrs)]

On Monday 18 Oct 2010 19:39:33 Faustus wrote:
> This option enables the deprecated wireless statistics
> files in /sys/class/net/*/wireless/. The same information
> is available via the ioctls as well.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you want the deprecated interface be
enabled ?

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