Re: rt73usb Access point status

Alexandre Becholey
2009-05-18T11:12:25Z

Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> On Saturday 16 May 2009, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
>
>> "Christoph .J Thompson" <cjsthompson@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, 12 May 2009 09:16:12 +0100
>>> Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there any prospec of persuading Ralink either to release
>>>> a mended version of the firmware or to free the old version?
>>>>
>>> I think Ivo van Doorn said he didn't want to bother RaLink with that. I was
>>> thinking about writing to them about it but that's difficult because I don't
>>> really understand the technical specifics of the issue.
>>>
>> Me neither; in particular, does it work as an AP in Windows?
>> If so, how does it get round the bug in the driver?
>>
>
> Simply by indicating that every single frame passed to the driver has
> been send out succesfully and thus completely ignoring the real status.
>
> I am awaiting a patch from Alexandre which will add that same behavior
> to rt2x00.
>
> Ivo
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Ok, I'll sent it soon.

I was trying to figure out the problem with the ARP packets when the
wireless interface is bridged with an ethernet. It seems to be a known
issue:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/bridge/2009-May/006382.html
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bridge#It_doesn.27t_work_with_my_Wireless_card.21
(kinda old... last modification from 2007)

Alexandre