CFR: if_media changes for multi-mode devices
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Sat Apr 26 17:36:33 PDT 2003
The patch:
http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/ifmedia.diff
has changes to support multi-mode devices such as 11a/b/g wireless cards.
These use 3 of the free bits in the media word to specifiy an optional mode
that devices can honor. To manipulate this field there is a new "mode"
command line option to ifconfig. For example,
ifconfig ath0 mode 11g
operate my multi-mode Atheros wireless device in 11g mode.
Other changes in this diff add a "turbo" option for enabling turbo mode on
802.11 devices, add 802.11 subtype options for specifying 11g rates (CCK at
6,9,12,18,24,36,48, ad 54 Mb/s), and correct the spelling of OFDM.
These changed should not affect existing code. If I don't hear anything
negative back in a few days I'll commit it.
Sam
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