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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael Büsch" <mb@bu3sch.de>,
	"Christian Lamparter" <chunkeey@googlemail.com>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	"Daniel Berger" <daniel@dat-berger.de>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Manual Control about Sending ACKs
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:17:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9A3A1C.4010704@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinr0omWQCaMj91P8=CFZLDLroxWdrV2c=9KjG4e@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/22/2010 10:12 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Michael Büsch<mb@bu3sch.de>  wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 15:45 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>>
>>>> I suspect you need to be looking at hacking firmware.
>>>> You might look at the open-source ar9170 firmware
>>>> or the b43-openfwwf project.
>>>
>>> probably not ar9170 either.
>>> The ACK - mechanism (response control) is mostly hardwired in
>>> the chip, there is not much to control here.
>>
>> The ack mechanism is implemented in firmware for the b43 chip and I
>> think it's understood pretty much completely how ACKing works in
>> the firmware. So you may want to take a look at b43-openfwwf.
>> The guys who created b43-openfwwf also experimented with this
>> kind of stuff, so you might want to contact them.
>
> You can also look at ath_hw_set_bssid_mask() for ath5k, ath9k, which

Just in case I'm missing something:  It doesn't appear that upstream ath5k has any
support for virtual interfaces?  I'm trying to get ath5k working
now, based on my .31 patches...

Ben


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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-22 17:17 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
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 [this message]
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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