From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from s72.web-hosting.com ([198.187.29.21]:56158 "EHLO s72.web-hosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751328Ab3LAAcB (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Nov 2013 19:32:01 -0500 From: Sujith Manoharan MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <21146.33378.141904.187743@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (sfid-20131201_013207_556526_9C6CF954) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 05:57:14 +0530 To: Drasko DRASKOVIC Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "hostap\@lists.shmoo.com" , j@w1.fi Subject: Re: multi-wiphy (virtual radios that can be used with multiple channels) In-Reply-To: References: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Drasko DRASKOVIC wrote: > Hi all, > can somebody please explain in some more details this possibility of > ath9k driver, mentioned here: http://lwn.net/Articles/321690/ and > specially here: > http://osdir.com/ml/linux-wireless/2009-03/msg00090.html in these > patches signed-off by Jouni. The virtual wiphy feature has been removed from ath9k. > Does this means that ath9k devices can be put in AP and STA modes > simultaneously (one virtual interface for each) over different > channels? > > I am looking to solve this problem: I want to have always present AP > for user settings that I bring on boot, so I give it some > pre-configured channel. Via this AP user will configure other > interface in STA mode to connect to home network. However, this home > network can be over any channel, very potentially different of the one > I have chosen for AP. Multi Channel Concurrency is required to do this, but ath9k doesn't support it right now. Sujith