From: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
To: Jon Fairbairn <jon.fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Alexandre Becholey <alexandre@shockfish.com>
Subject: Re: rt73usb Access point status
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 11:32:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905161132.21437.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wf4ovlo25e.fsf@calligramme.charmers>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-16 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-30 13:41 rt73usb Access point status Joerg Pommnitz
2009-04-30 13:55 ` Johannes Berg
2009-04-30 13:56 ` Luis Correia
2009-05-02 10:18 ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-05-02 10:34 ` Luis Correia
2009-05-11 1:55 ` Christoph .J Thompson
2009-05-12 8:16 ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-05-12 19:58 ` Christoph .J Thompson
2009-05-16 8:58 ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-05-16 9:32 ` Ivo van Doorn [this message]
2009-05-17 8:47 ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-05-17 12:51 ` Christoph .J Thompson
2009-05-17 14:31 ` Jon Fairbairn
2009-05-17 16:33 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-05-18 11:12 ` Alexandre Becholey
2009-05-30 8:12 ` Russell Senior
2009-05-30 15:06 ` Christoph .J Thompson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-25 14:44 Edimax EW-7318USG as Access Point? Jon Fairbairn
2009-04-30 9:39 ` rt73usb Access point status Jon Fairbairn
2009-04-30 9:51 ` Luis Correia
2009-04-30 9:58 ` Luis Correia
2009-04-30 10:05 ` Johannes Berg
2009-05-11 1:40 ` Christoph .J Thompson
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