Re: ad-hoc and infrastructure mode simultaneously?

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From: Eric Yun (Eric.Yun_at_meta4hand.com)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:57:40 -0600

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<hel@40th.com> wrote in message
news:%23gZW2uihEHA.1344@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> If wzc is running you won't succeed (for long) using an oid.
> The app in the sig does it, so it is possible, at least
> switching APs, and having it stick. Here's a pic:
>
> http://iplay.40th.com/iplaycs_rssi.html
>
> Bottom, center pic shows an adhoc (mp3) and a couple
> of AP networks (juniper/basil). I can switch among
> the APs no problem, so long as wzc is set to access
> "All available" or "Only access points". If it's set
> to "Only [adhoc]" then I could switch among only those.
> I can't switch out of the network type, though. Also,
> "All available" isn't true -- it only ever does APs
> in that mode. To get adhocs to show you have to set
> it to "Only [adhoc]".
>
> I'd like to tell you that it's easy to do, but it
> probably isn't. It probably should be, but these
> APIs are poorly, if at all, documented, and maybe
> destined to be abandoned anyway, to be replaced
> by an even more obscure, for-gurus-only API. I
> wonder who thinks up these things that no one could
> ever understand fully. He probably has two heads
> and sees in the dark.
>
> (Obligatory good luck!)
>
> --
> 40th Floor - Software @ http://40th.com/
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