wireless events (maybe off topic)

Jean Tourrilhes jt at bougret.hpl.hp.com
Mon May 5 16:50:12 EDT 2003


Peter De Cleyn wrote :
> I would like to configure some extra events in the HostAP driver code 
> that can be catched in a user space application. Using the 
> wireless_send_event call, I allways receive wlan0 (WE) : Invalid/Unknown 
> Wireless Event. Looking at the code of wireless.c, there is mentioned that 
> I should register a description for my events. Can someone tell me how I 
> should do this or where I can find more info about doing such things?

	You are supposed to use IWEVCUSTOM for that, and pass it an
ASCII string (avail in WE-15). If you think it's something truly
generic, then you need to talk to me about that. But, most likely the
event is already available or you can get the info differently.
	Good luck...

	Jean



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