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| Things left to do on 802.11 include: | Things left to do on 802.11 include: | ||
| * <del>[easy] Provide CTS protection if the network asks for it; required for 802.11 g/b interoperability.</del> Done 6/12 | * <del>[easy] Provide CTS protection if the network asks for it; required for 802.11 g/b interoperability.</del> Done 6/12 | ||
| - | * [easy] If we don't get a response to our assoc/auth packets within a few seconds during the association phase, resend them. | + | * <del>[easy] If we don't get a response to our assoc/auth packets within a few seconds during the association phase, resend them.</del> Done 6/15 |
| - | * [easy, added 6/10] If we're running without a user-specified SSID, and we can't associate with the best-signal network due to e.g. encryption, try the others. Possibly extend this to trying others if we get a DHCP that doesn't provide PXE options. | + | * <del>[easy, added 6/10] If we're running without a user-specified SSID, and we can't associate with the best-signal network due to e.g. encryption, try the others. Possibly extend this to trying others if we get a DHCP that doesn't provide PXE options.</del> Decided 6/15 not to do; it would cause network probe to use significantly more resources, without benefiting the typical gPXE user. The minimal automatic functionality we have now (associate with strongest-signal if SSID is blank) should be enough. |
| - | * [easy] Provide command-line facilities to see what the card's doing, or extend `ifstat' to show it. (Channel, BSSID, signal strength, etc; this stuff can be very useful for network debugging.) Possibly provide a facility to scan for all networks (one way of doing that is prototyped in net80211.h, but I haven't implemented it). | + | * [easy] Provide command-line facilities to see what the card's doing, or extend `ifstat' to show it. (Channel, BSSID, signal strength, etc; this stuff can be very useful for network debugging.) <del>Possibly provide a facility to scan for all networks (one way of doing that is prototyped in net80211.h, but I haven't implemented it).</del> |
| * <del>[easy] Include error message tables for the 802.11 status and reason codes. These would be rather big, but "association denied - status 12" is of no help to anyone who doesn't have the 802.11 standard on hand. Perhaps we should just teach them to gpxebot, and/or figure out a way to encode them into the 32-bit return code space.</del> Error encoding done 6/12 | * <del>[easy] Include error message tables for the 802.11 status and reason codes. These would be rather big, but "association denied - status 12" is of no help to anyone who doesn't have the 802.11 standard on hand. Perhaps we should just teach them to gpxebot, and/or figure out a way to encode them into the 32-bit return code space.</del> Error encoding done 6/12 | ||
| * [easy, added 6/12] Clean up status displays, so the prompt doesn't appear in the middle of the association message after an ifopen or SSID set. | * [easy, added 6/12] Clean up status displays, so the prompt doesn't appear in the middle of the association message after an ifopen or SSID set. | ||
