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From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Daniel Berger <daniel@dat-berger.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Manual Control about Sending ACKs
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:02:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100922130245.GC5515@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100922123953.67a4fc5e@danmob>

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:39:53PM +0200, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Thus I deduce ACK sending is completely done in hardware.

Yes, I believe this is the case with all of our supported hardware.

> Is my conclusion and understanding right? Is there any possible solution
> to my problem of sending ACKs manually? Would that be fast enough for
> the SIFS and other stations' ACK timeout?

I suspect you need to be looking at hacking firmware.  You might look
at the open-source ar9170 firmware or the b43-openfwwf project.

Good luck!

John
-- 
John W. Linville		Someday the world will need a hero, and you
linville@tuxdriver.com			might be all we have.  Be ready.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-22 10:39 Manual Control about Sending ACKs Daniel Berger
2010-09-22 13:02 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2010-09-22 13:45   ` Christian Lamparter
2010-09-22 13:54     ` Michael Büsch
2010-09-22 17:12       ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2010-09-22 17:17         ` Ben Greear
2010-09-22 18:38           ` Daniel Berger
2010-09-23 18:56             ` AW: " Bjoern Czybik
2010-09-23 20:14               ` Daniel Berger
2010-09-22 18:50 ` Nick Kossifidis
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-22 10:36 Daniel Berger

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