From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f118.google.com ([209.85.221.118]:43365 "EHLO mail-qy0-f118.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755263AbZDGNLI (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Apr 2009 09:11:08 -0400 Received: by qyk16 with SMTP id 16so4714087qyk.33 for ; Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:11:07 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: What is needed to inplement a AP support in a driver? From: Maxim Levitsky To: Rami Rosen Cc: linux-wireless In-Reply-To: References: <1239062777.4705.30.camel@maxim-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:11:02 +0300 Message-Id: <1239109862.15015.17.camel@maxim-laptop> (sfid-20090407_151114_804825_AB71B9B4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 12:25 +0300, Rami Rosen wrote: > Hi, > > Why iwl3945 still doesn't support AP mode? > see also this patch, titled: "wlwifi: disable AP mode" > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg24688.html > > Regards, > Rami Rosen Quoiting this patch: > 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. This is interesting, this means it doesn't save frames when client is in power save mode? IBSS doesn't have this? > > > > 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. Packet injection (even fragmentation) works fine here. Also, now hostapd responds to probes isn't it? (I was said that now hostapd sends/recieves all managment frames) > > > [ 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... Here, software scan fixes it, besides many device don't have hardware scan > > > > [ 487.507346] iwlagn: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x2000000. This probably was fixed now, there were many reports about microcode errors. > I just feel, that AP mode can be done, and it isn't that hard to enable it. Best regards, Maxim Levitsky