Hello!
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 00:03 +0200, R Al wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using a 802.11 NIC with Orinoco driver and I'd like to have
> information about MAC layer; in particular: the percentage of idle and
> busy periods, NAV, statistics from carrier sensing...
I think you chose a wrong driver. The orinoco driver relies on the
firmware for all low-lever operations.
> Do you think it's possible to exploit any driver functionality? In
> particular, in the driver code, are there data structures in which
> such information is available? If not, is it possible to modify the
> driver code in order to collect and store such information somewhere
> in the driver, so that I can query the driver when I need?
The statistics is already collected, but all the measurements are done
the firmware. It the firmware doesn't provide some data, there is no
way for the driver to extract it.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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