Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: disable AP mode

[reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:50 -0800, Johannes Berg wrote:
> iwlwifi does not support AP mode in any way. For one, it doesn't even
> buffer multicast/broadcast frames properly. We didn't allow zd1211rw AP
> mode to be enabled without this, so iwlwifi shouldn't be allowed to
> advertise AP mode either.
> 
> It also doesn't work at all, it doesn't even answer to probe requests,
> I'm guessing the packet injection code was disabled again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
> ---
> FYI, I've also tested AP mode on iwl5000 and it most definitely does not
> work properly:
> 
> [  471.524478] iwlagn: ERROR: APs don't scan
> 
> this is a long-standing bug, of course APs scan to know their
> surroundings, not sure why this is there, it's also very pointless since
> I can remove it by enabling software scan...
> 
> [  487.507346] iwlagn: Microcode SW error detected.  Restarting 0x2000000.
> 
> apparently even the microcode doesn't like AP mode :) Note that I've
> done nothing out of the ordinary, just started hostapd.
> 
> Once somebody cares to fix the code these two lines can be put back
> easily, I haven't ripped out the actual support code. But when you do
> please test with PS clients and multicast traffic.
> 
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c     |    1 -
>  drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |    1 -
>  2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 

Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>

Reinette