On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 10:57 -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
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> Just a side note. Mode is not for abg settings but for type of node
> your setting your card to be. At one point Jean had added to WE an
> ioctl for switching IEEE-802.11 mode but that never made it to the
> kernel, its documented under wireless-tools as 'modu[ation]' but no
> driver implements this as WE in the kernel doesn't support it. With
> nl80211/cfg80211 we'll have that support.

If I remember correctly, this was planned for Wireless Extensions 21,
but Jean was asked to keep the changes to the minimum, so "modu" was
dropped.

In any case, it's more than just modulation, it can also be a different
band and different approach to compatibility with legacy peers.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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