Re: rt73usb Access point status

Christoph .J Thompson
2009-05-11T01:55:17Z

On Sat, 2 May 2009 11:34:31 +0100
Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@gmail.com> wrote:
> No, the bug is not in hostapd.
>
> As Johannes says, the bug is in the driver.
> Apparently, the driver is unable to get the ACK from the hardware and
> thus unable to report that ACK back to hostapd.
>
> So the hostapd hack works, as long as there are enough room for
> retransmit supposely lost frames.
>
> I can't explain this well enough in English, sorry.

Apparently there is no bug in neither hostapd nor the driver. From what I understood the hardware is incapable of doing it or the firmware needs to be fixed.

> To be completely honest with you in this whole AP issue, here's what I
> used to say to my friends: "if you need an AP working flawlessly under
> Linux, got with the Atheros b/g hardware".
> But that was in the madwifi days, I haven't tested it with the current
> mac80211 based driver.

But if he can't use anything else than a USB dongle than Atheros is useless. In my case I can't use anything else than a USB dongle on my AP because there's only one case you can use for this embedded board (ALIX 2d3) and it doesn't have a hole for an external antenna as it's the model with 3 ethernet ports.

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Christoph .J Thompson <cjsthompson@gmail.com>