[help] WiFi connection //Re: [PATCH][2.6.39?] b43: trivial: update module info about firmware

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 01:46:52 EST 2012


2012/11/9 Zhou hangxing 周行行 <hangxing.zhou at gmail.com>:
> One question about WiFi connect event in driver layer. I appreciate some
> information from your guys if possible.
>
> There is a device_A with WiFi module,  the application in smart
> phone(iPhone) can communicate with the device_A via socket connection.
>
> In this case, if user goes to setting screen in iPhone, and disable the WiFi
> directly( the application is still running).
>
> Does the driver layer know the status of WiFi connection in device_A?
> Or any event message can be indicated by WiFi driver in device_A?

So... are you using Linux on iPhone? Some Android port?

What WiFi chipset does it have? Some BCM4312 (LP-PHY) with higher PHY
rev? I though phones are usually using fullmac devices...

You way want to check rfkill, but I'm not sure it Android is using that.

-- 
Rafał



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