Re: Commit 741b4fbc44 (mac80211: fix TX sequence numbers) breaks rtl8187

[Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>]

Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 11:23 +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 00:21 -0300, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
>> >
>> >> [3] /sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power on
>> >
>> > I don't think turning on power management (yes, this command is
>> > completely misnamed, it turns on power _management_ not the power, you
>> > may want "txpower auto") does anything on this chip, does it?
>> >
>> iwconfig power on is not implemented by mac80211 yet. There was one
>> patch posted that implements it.
>> I wanted to expand it but  wireless_tools 29 has a bug in parsing this
>> command. It is fixed only in 30.pre6 which is usually not in distros.
>
> Heh, fun. Time for putting that into cfg80211 instead if nobody can use
> it with wext anyway?

Wireless Extensions needs to be supported as well, we simply cannot
yet rely only on cfg80211 interface. The reason being that it's not
widely supported yet.

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Kalle Valo