From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tianji Li Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:36:11 +0100 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Do 11n rates available in ad-hoc mode In-Reply-To: <20090622225034.GA14496@mosca> References: <20090619171932.GB30999@tesla> <20090622225034.GA14496@mosca> Message-ID: <4A44887B.8030609@nuim.ie> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:17:12PM -0700, Rakesh Kumar wrote: > >>> No, its not something in the IEEE standard so such support won't likely >>> get merged into mac80211. You might be able to use MCS rates in ad-hoc >>> mode but if that's possible its just becuase we haven't fixed the code >>> paths to not allow for it. >>> >>> Luis >>> >>> >> Are you referring to Ad-hoc mode when saying it's not in IEEE standard >> or support for using rate adaptation for it? >> > > Yes. > > >> If that is the case, you >> elaborate on as to why this is the case >> > > I am not sure. > > >> or point me somewhere to read >> about it? >> > > Unfortunately I have nothing. The 11n draft is only available to > members so if you don't have that with you there aren't really any > other good places to read about it. When I get a chance I tend to try > to add to this wiki: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/ieee80211/802.11n > > But its more a quick summary for developers. > > Luis > _______________________________________________ > ath9k-devel mailing list > ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org > https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel > Hi there, I have a copy of the 802.11n draft version 3.0 dated Sep. 2007, in Section 5.2.9 High Throughput (HT) STA on Page 33, I saw a sentence like this 'The HT features are available to HT STAs associated with an HT AP in a BSS. *A subset* of the HT features is available for use between two HT STAs that are members of the same IBSS.' I think this means that at that time (around two years ago), people *might be* thinking to support high phy rates in ad hoc mode, which may or may not be the case now. BTW, I bought the draft 3.0 via IEEE explorer some time ago, which costs me around 100 dollars. Tianji