Re: Mode selection in mac80211

[Mike Kershaw <dragorn@kismetwireless.net>]

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On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:55:39AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> That's actually a can of worms. Luis is working (I hope) on resolving
> these issues with mode vs. frequency selection. However, I'm not
> entirely convinced that mode selection should be done by userspace when
> we are acting as a client. I think we should simply exploit hardware
> capabilities as much as possible and then use the set that the AP
> advertised (or rather as much as we can support of that).

I'd vote for allowing the user to set a mode - just like they're
allowed to lock an AP association to a specific MAC, bypassing the
hardware roaming algos.

I've hit situations in the past where a card can get a very weak 11g
link but a perfectly usable 11b link, and the hw did not want to drop
back to 11b on its own.  Being able to lock to 11b only was key.  

-m

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