From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Manuel Munz <freifunk@somakoma.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No beacons in ad-hoc mode with b43
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:05:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E767934.3000502@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E766435.3010707@somakoma.de>
On 09/18/2011 04:35 PM, Manuel Munz wrote:
> 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.
I confirmed your fix with an ad-hoc connection from one b43 device to another.
Your patch needs to be reformatted to satisfy kernel requirements. I will take
care of that for you, but you need to read Documentation/SubmittingPatches.
Good work to find the fix.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-18 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-17 21:43 No beacons in ad-hoc mode with b43 Manuel Munz
2011-09-17 22:13 ` Rafał Miłecki
2011-09-17 22:23 ` Michael Büsch
2011-09-18 0:16 ` Manuel Munz
2011-09-18 21:35 ` Manuel Munz
2011-09-18 23:05 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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