Queries about acx-mac80211 master mode support on the AR7 platform

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Hi,

I=92m currently following the Openwrt project (http://openwrt.org/) wit=
h=20
specific interest to the AR7 port. The hardworking developers on this=20
project have really brought support for this along: the unit works, the=
=20
ADSL component works, but the wireless support is still WIP. Until=20
recently the acx drivers (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/) were used to=20
drive the card on the unit; a specific pci-to-vlynq bridge had been=20
written to enable this to work on the AR7 platform. This worked well,=20
but there was no WPA support available; WEP was the only encryption=20
available with this driver.

Hence to address this, initial work was taken for the acx driver to=20
utilise the mac80211 stack and a new acx driver called acx-mac80211 was=
=20
written (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Acx-mac80211).  IMHO this=20
still very much WIP and is nowhere near as stable as the original acx=20
driver. But, perhaps the largest sticking point is that the acx-mac8021=
1=20
driver, unlike acx, does not support AP (master) mode. I have struggled=
=20
to find out whether this is an issue in the acx-mac80211 driver=20
component or in fact the mac80211 does not support master mode at this=20
moment in time. Can anyone shed some light on this and help clear up my=
=20
ongoing confusion?

Regards,

Mark Williamson
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