Re: No beacons in ad-hoc mode with b43

[Manuel Munz <freifunk@somakoma.de>]

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On 17.09.2011 23:43, Manuel Munz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i want to use b43 on older broadcom wireless routers with openwrt, but
> there seems to be a problem: The router doesn't send beacons in adhoc
> mode (verified with wireshark), which means users can't see the network
> in a network scan. So is there a problem in the adhoc implementation
> with b43? Could someone please have a look at this? It is preventing us
> from using b43 in our mesh for too long now.
> 

Hi,

after trying various things i came up with the following patch which
seems to address the issue for me.

regards, Manuel




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--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -1616,7 +1616,8 @@ static void handle_irq_beacon(struct b43
 	u32 cmd, beacon0_valid, beacon1_valid;
 
 	if (!b43_is_mode(wl, NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) &&
-	    !b43_is_mode(wl, NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT))
+	    !b43_is_mode(wl, NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) &&
+	    !b43_is_mode(wl, NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC))
 		return;
 
 	/* This is the bottom half of the asynchronous beacon update. */

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