On Tue, 25 May 2004, Luciano R. de Albuquerque wrote:
Hi all,
is there a way to set the BSSID (Access Point MAC address) I want to use,
instead of just set the ESSID. I m using a orinoco-13d with a Enterasys PCMCIA
card.
When setting just the ESSID, the card gets the BSSID with the best signal level.
And it changes automatically to another BSSID within the same ESSID as the
signal level varies.
It's still not implemented, but implementing this functionality has very
high priority. I cannot promise it will be in version 0.15, but it will
be implemented soon.
The problem is that the card needs BSSID and channel, while the wireless
extensions API only provides BSSID. Either the channel should be found by
scanning, or we should require all callers to supply the channel.
Scanning would make the code more complex. Currently only explicitly
requested scanning is supported, and the code for parsing scan results is
specifically tailored to send scan results to iwlist.
On the other hand, if we require the caller to set the channel, some
userspace programs may need to be modified. Setting BSSID and channel by
iwconfig will be fine, but I'm not sure about programs like waproamd.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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