Re: rt73usb Access point status

Jon Fairbairn
2009-05-12T08:16:24Z

"Christoph .J Thompson"
<cjsthompson@gmail.com>
writes:

> On Sat, 2 May 2009 11:34:31 +0100
> Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> No, the bug is not in hostapd.
>>=20
>> As Johannes says, the bug is in the driver.
>> Apparently, the driver is unable to get the ACK from the hardware an=
d
>> thus unable to report that ACK back to hostapd.
>>=20
>> So the hostapd hack works, as long as there are enough room for
>> retransmit supposely lost frames.
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>> 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.

Is there any prospec of persuading Ralink either to release
a mended version of the firmware or to free the old version?

What is it that Alexandre Becholey is doing, though? It
looked promising to me.

>> 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 und=
er
>> Linux, got with the Atheros b/g hardware".
>> But that was in the madwifi days, I haven't tested it with the curre=
nt
>> mac80211 based driver.
>
> But if he can't use anything else than a USB dongle than
> Atheros is useless.

Quite. No free PCI slots, for example.

> 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.

I think my solution to that would involve HSS tools, but
your point is a good one.

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