ORBIT-USER: Where's the WiFi device on sb2?

[Einar Vollset]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 10:07 PM, Max Ott wrote:

> The behavior you find rude has been requested by many users as they
> find it to be very helpful to achieve repeatable results.

I mean "rude" in a "how rude!" said with a posh english accent  
way.. :-) Sorry, doesn't
translate - fans of Carry On films may appreciate the distinction.. :-D


> Freshly
> loading the driver before every experiment puts it into a 'almost'
> known state.

Oh, I'm all for that - I'm just looking for a way to leave the system  
in the same state
as during the experiment _after_ it has finished - that way I can  
take a look and
see what nodehandler did.

>
> The nodehandler abstractions of the wireless interfaces is there to
> make life (hopefully) easier for those who do not want to dive in the
> arcane world of 'iwconfig', 'ifconfig', 'modprobe'. But with any
> conveninece wrapper, it sometimes gets in the way.

Sure.

>
> If you rather want to operate on the bare metal, we don't prevent you,
> we leave the light on for you. But as always when operating heavy and
> complicated machinery, you better know what you are doing.

Ai, alas I'm trying to avoid the bare metal, as I like the  
nodehandler abstraction, and
see potential in the way it handles measurement through OML. It's  
just that sometimes
its not obvious where to look to understand what it's doing..

Cheers,

Einar