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Linux WLAN NG TODO
- Configure options depend on kernel version/pcmcia stuff/etc?
- Make the command-completion interrupt driven vs busywaiting.
- Possibly hook up DMA on the Rx side for PCI devices
- [USB] Remove driver's port-reset when new primary firmware becomes
available.
- [USB] Look into multiple posted URBs
- Review changes necessary for static linking to kernel
- Update MAC RID to 802.11 MIB mapping document
- Update MAC feature to 802.11 mapping document
- Display the MAC and BBP partnum & revision at initialization time
- Perform a more effective I/O access test and an irq test at
initialization time
- Detect dead card and perform reset and reinitialization
- Add an lnx command to query the rx signal stats:
(cumlative should be a weighted average)
last beacon rssi
last beacon sq
last beacon noise floor
cumlative beacon rssi
cumlative beacon sq
cumlative beacon noise floor
last data rssi
last data sq
last data noise floor
cumlative data rssi
cumlative data sq
cumlative data noise floor
- X-Windows Status display (in C)
- GTK Configurator
- Scan/selectSSID/joinSSID + SetupPerSSID
- Shell functions to simplify wlanctl usage
- Finish the prism2 request responses for STA and AP
Station:
scan
powermgmt
join
authenticate
deauthenticate
associate (currently only partially functional)
disassociate
reassociate
start
reset
Access Point
deauthenticate
disassociate
reset
- Finish the mibget/mibset
PHY MIBS
Prism2 specific mibs (represent all RIDs)
- Add event detection and notification of daemon
Station:
deauthenticate
disassociate
rxpwer_l2
rxpwer_l1
Access Point:
associate
authenticate
reassociate
- Add event handling scripts for the events above
- Add AP support for power managing stations
- [PCMCIA] Improve PCMCIA event scripts
- man pages
- Add a HOWTO document for users
- Add a HOWTO document for programmers