[ltp] Re: Re: [ltp] R40 and ndiswrapper

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do you own a Pro 2100 card?
what driver do you use? and does it work for you?
Rene Wagner <reenoo@gmx.de> schrieb am 08.04.2004, 12:33:49:
> 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
> 
>  PS: Note that closed source/binary only/glue code/whatever drivers
> will never work as reliably as entirely free (as in speech) drivers.
> 
> 
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