Jouni Malinen wrote:

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:17:34PM -0700, Michael Wu wrote:

 

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It would be helpful if you inlined your patches instead of attaching them next 
time.
   

Agreed.

 

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I'm not comfortable with using the name for this purpose.
   

And agreed. wireless.h has this to say about SIOCGIWNAME:

#define SIOCGIWNAME     0x8B01          /* get name == wireless protocol */
/* SIOCGIWNAME is used to verify the presence of Wireless Extensions.
* Common values : "IEEE 802.11-DS", "IEEE 802.11-FH", "IEEE 802.11b"...
* Don't put the name of your driver there, it's useless. */


The proposed use here is against this and should not be applied.
SIOCGIWAP can be used to indicate association status and SIOCGIWTXPOW
can be used to indicate whether TX is powered which is quite close to
radio off indication.

 

to associated to a network i do the following
#iwconfig wlan0 essid {some name} channel X ap {bssid of the AP}
after I issues this command  SIOCGIWAP will always report the bssid no 
matter what the status of our link.