Hi,

I am Linux newbie and I need urgent help PLEASEEEEEE!!!

Regarding net_device structures (I am programming in the Linux 2.6 kernel series).

Suppose I have a pointer to a net_device structure, for example

const struct net_device *dev,

How can I find out if this device corresponds to a wireless interface?

I thought about checking dev->wireless_handlers to see if it exists (as I am assuming it will only exist for wireless devices), i.e.

if (dev->wireless_handlers){
// device corresponds to a wireless interface
}

Is that correct, or am I way off?

PS. I am a real newbie :-)

Cheers,

Ramirez

I dnt know how will u get net_device structure.. bt if u can get it then u can get pointer to pdev structure frm it (net_device->pdev), and get the Vendor ID / Device ID of the device from its config space and compare it with the wireless device which u want to find out.

-- r u writing a driver for wireless device or wt ???

--Mehul.

Thank you for your reply!

No I am not writing a device driver. I am writing a kernel module that monitors the packets that arrive on the host. So, I registered my module with the IP_FORWARD kernel hook and now I have a callback function with the pointer to the packet, the network device it arrived on, and the network device it is leaving on. And the callback function gets called for every packet that traverses the host. So I have pointers to all these structures.

What I want to do is check the device the packet is leaving on to see if it is a wireless device or not. And I thought about checking

dev->wireless_handlers,

to see if it exists or not as I think it will only exist if the device is a wireless device. Is that correct???

I dont think I need to check the Vendor ID/Device ID as I am only checking to see if it is wireless or not.

Thanks so much for your help!

Ramirez

hi,
You can use wireless_handlers, bt the problem is this field is not mandatory for wireless drivers, e.g. ray_cs.c is a wireless lan driver but it doesnt initialize wireless_handlers. You can check for "get_wireless_stats", but that is also not mandatory...... But i suggest you to read Vendor ID/ Device ID, whnever you find any new net_dev address you can go and read config space, if its Dev/Vendor ID matches thn store a flag for this net_dev struct. I couldnt find any other way.

--Mehul.

Thanks Mehul for your reply. You have been a lot of help for me.

On another issue, isn't "get_wireless_stats" depracated or phased out. I read on the net that it is being phased out and will no longer be supported in Linux 2.6 kernel. Is that true??

Thanks

hi,
i really dnt know if it is phased out, bt it is still there in the 2.6 kernel. As i told you tht u can read the config space, but again if the device is not pci than u are in big trouble .... I couldnt find any flag in dev structure which will tell whether the device is wireless or not ...

Regards,
Mehul.