Re: Manual Control about Sending ACKs

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 09/22/2010 10:12 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Michael Büsch<mb@bu3sch.de>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 15:45 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>>
>>>> I suspect you need to be looking at hacking firmware.
>>>> You might look at the open-source ar9170 firmware
>>>> or the b43-openfwwf project.
>>>
>>> probably not ar9170 either.
>>> The ACK - mechanism (response control) is mostly hardwired in
>>> the chip, there is not much to control here.
>>
>> The ack mechanism is implemented in firmware for the b43 chip and I
>> think it's understood pretty much completely how ACKing works in
>> the firmware. So you may want to take a look at b43-openfwwf.
>> The guys who created b43-openfwwf also experimented with this
>> kind of stuff, so you might want to contact them.
>
> You can also look at ath_hw_set_bssid_mask() for ath5k, ath9k, which

Just in case I'm missing something:  It doesn't appear that upstream ath5k has any
support for virtual interfaces?  I'm trying to get ath5k working
now, based on my .31 patches...

Ben


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