Native WIFI removed in CE 6.0?

Am I correct in understanding native WiFi has been removed from CE 6.0?

I.E. you can no longer implement an AP or gateway?

CE WiFi device has been relegated to being just a client?

Reason for this?

Steve
Tue Apr 08 14:27:54 PDT 2008

"Skin Diver" <me@home.com> wrote in message
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> Am I correct in understanding native WiFi has been removed from CE 6.0?
Yes, it is removed


> I.E. you can no longer implement an AP or gateway?
No, that is still possible. Native Wi-fi was an attempt to allow for REALLY
cheap hardware by pushing all the processing onto the main CPU in the
driver. Unfortunately due to a number of issues (political and technical) it
wasn't well received in the market and thus dropped. There is nothing that
inherently ties native Wi-Fi to AP implementation AFAIK.

> CE WiFi device has been relegated to being just a client?
No - see above

> Reason for this?
See above

Skin
Thu Apr 10 06:32:12 PDT 2008

I guess my question then becomes how do I add AP functionality?

There is still some references in the CE 6 docs to the old CE 5.0 stuff
under how to make a wireless gateway that states add the SYSGEN_NWIFI_AP.
But this is no longer available.

Is there a way to do this throught the WZC?
If there is, I am missing it. I only see how to set up prefered networks
etc. and to connect to such, not how to set as an AP.
Maybe I am missing something simple?





"Steve Maillet [MSFT]" <smaillet_at_microsoft_com@nospam.com> wrote in
message news:%23bkbp9bmIHA.4664@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> "Skin Diver" <me@home.com> wrote in message
> news:uLL1NRbmIHA.5084@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Am I correct in understanding native WiFi has been removed from CE 6.0?
> Yes, it is removed
>
>
>> I.E. you can no longer implement an AP or gateway?
> No, that is still possible. Native Wi-fi was an attempt to allow for
> REALLY cheap hardware by pushing all the processing onto the main CPU in
> the driver. Unfortunately due to a number of issues (political and
> technical) it wasn't well received in the market and thus dropped. There
> is nothing that inherently ties native Wi-Fi to AP implementation AFAIK.
>
>> CE WiFi device has been relegated to being just a client?
> No - see above
>
>> Reason for this?
> See above

K
Thu Apr 10 10:42:32 PDT 2008

I beleive you will need to implment all of the AP function and configuration
feature by your own.
The WZC is for Station mode (client side) but nothing about the AP.

"Skin Diver" <me@home.com> wrote in message
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>I guess my question then becomes how do I add AP functionality?
>
> There is still some references in the CE 6 docs to the old CE 5.0 stuff
> under how to make a wireless gateway that states add the SYSGEN_NWIFI_AP.
> But this is no longer available.
>
> Is there a way to do this throught the WZC?
> If there is, I am missing it. I only see how to set up prefered networks
> etc. and to connect to such, not how to set as an AP.
> Maybe I am missing something simple?
>
>
>
>
>
> "Steve Maillet [MSFT]" <smaillet_at_microsoft_com@nospam.com> wrote in
> message news:%23bkbp9bmIHA.4664@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> "Skin Diver" <me@home.com> wrote in message
>> news:uLL1NRbmIHA.5084@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Am I correct in understanding native WiFi has been removed from CE 6.0?
>> Yes, it is removed
>>
>>
>>> I.E. you can no longer implement an AP or gateway?
>> No, that is still possible. Native Wi-fi was an attempt to allow for
>> REALLY cheap hardware by pushing all the processing onto the main CPU in
>> the driver. Unfortunately due to a number of issues (political and
>> technical) it wasn't well received in the market and thus dropped. There
>> is nothing that inherently ties native Wi-Fi to AP implementation AFAIK.
>>
>>> CE WiFi device has been relegated to being just a client?
>> No - see above
>>
>>> Reason for this?
>> See above
>
>