I've been trying to obtain signal strengths to multiple access points,
with little luck. First a brief description of the configuration I'm
using:

 - Linux laptop running 2.4.3 kernel with the latest orinoco_cs driver with a
        Lucent Gold card

 - Two Lucent AP1000 access points in bridging mode

iwspy will gladly give me signal strengths for any IP address, however
they all appear to be signal strengths to the current access point.
That is, even if I ask iwspy to collect statistics on the "other"
access point, the signal values I get are still the values for the
access point I'm bridging through. Further, if I request statistics
for the radio-side ethernet addresses of the access points, I never
get any results. I'm presuming this is because it is in bridging
mode. Is there a way to get multiple access point statistics even in
bridging mode? If I change out of bridging mode, will I get the
numbers?

Further, as I understand it, the MAC in the Lucent cards handles
roaming and handoff. Is there any way to force handoff or even get
explicit handoff notification? I looked through the HCF-light spec
and didn't see anything. For that matter, is it possible to get the
beacon RSSI values that the MAC is presumably using to do the roaming?
wavelan_cs (for the old cards) seems to have access to this data, but
I don't see it in the new driver or spec.

Are there other cards (non-orinoco) that provide access to this data?

                                        ...Matthew

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