[ltp] R40 and ndiswrapper

[Rene Wagner]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 11:50, veith@codezilla.de wrote:
> > iwlist scan
> this tells me that scanning is not supported...

That used to work here (I can't test anything now). IIRC the card has
to be fully associated to the AP and the interface has to be up though.

> but what makes me wonder is, that still the ap was found!!
> so it must be able to scan but won't le me do so!

The driver being able to associate to the AP doesn't mean that it also
provides the information to user space programs through the wireless
extensions. E.g., the orinoco driver doesn't do the latter either
(without patches).

However, ndiswrapper should support iwlist scan.

Rene

<OT> PS: Note that closed source/binary only/glue code/whatever drivers
will never work as reliably as entirely free (as in speech) drivers.
</OT>