It's perfectly normal... The Wireless Extensions is a generic API supporting all kind of Wireless LANs out there. I designed it to support 802.11 cards, like the Wavelan IEEE, but also HiperLAN, Proxim OpenAir and a bunch of proprietary cards. So, don't be surprised if the Wireless Extensions and "iwconfig" offer features that don't make sense for 802.11 cards... For example, you can't set the NWID with 802.11 cards. Another factor is that not all drivers support all the functionality of the underlying hardware, because it take effort to code. However, "wvlan_cs" is amongst the most complete as far as Wireless Extensions goes. Now, comming back to the mode : the 802.11 specification defines only 2 modes for stations, ad-hoc and managed. You could use "auto" to let the driver choose, but this is not implemented in the Wavelan driver. Master and Secondary are there to support Proxim Open Air, and Repeater is designed for the HiperLan standard (no product yet). Happy now ? Jean |
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