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Topic: RC5: wet mode reported as repeater.

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Post #1
Ivoshiee
10 Apr 2006, 17:39

Is this normal that iwconfig will report the wet mode as repeater?
Webif is talking about bridge. Are these the same things?

root@reijo_22smae:~# iwconfig 
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

eth2      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"bundra_hor"  
          Mode:Repeater  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:40:96:34:3D:DA   
          Tx-Power:19 dBm   
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Link Signal level:-87 dBm  Noise level:-94 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:10100  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

br0       no wireless extensions.

root@reijo_22smae:~# nvram get wl0_mode
wet
root@reijo_22smae:~#
Post #2
mbm
10 Apr 2006, 21:01

Take anything the iw* tools tell you with a gain of salt -- the driver does not actually support the wireless extension protocol so you're actually going through a translation/compatibility wrapper which attempts to remap the request/response to the broadcom api.

Post #3
Ivoshiee
11 Apr 2006, 07:28
mbm wrote:

Take anything the iw* tools tell you with a gain of salt -- the driver does not actually support the wireless extension protocol so you're actually going through a translation/compatibility wrapper which attempts to remap the request/response to the broadcom api.

I do hope that the day when the driver will get replaced with better one isn't too far away...

(Last edited by Ivoshiee on 11 Apr 2006, 07:28)

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