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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Ramprasad Vempati <ramprasad.vempati@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to enforce Wireless Mode of Station?
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 07:49:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56225FF6.3080806@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB6w8ekg-6-p=ar=crbfDetHPG1bEsszgOKMAwVi2DTs5UL2rg@mail.gmail.com>

You need patches to wpa_supplicant and the kernel to make this
really work correctly.  Those patches are not upstream at this
point.

Thanks,
Ben


On 10/17/2015 02:59 AM, Ramprasad Vempati wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone clarify?
>
> Thanks,
> Ram
>
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Ramprasad Vempati
> <ramprasad.vempati@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to find how to control wireless mode, i.e. 802.11b or
>> 802.11g or 802.11ng or 802.11a etc for Station mode. In general for
>> Station mode, the connection happens with AP based AP mode. But for
>> test purpose, if I would like to control mode of a wireless station,
>> is it possible?  I mean when AP is 11bgn mode, if I want STA to
>> associate in 11b mode?
>>
>> I understand "iw" can be used to set rate mask. But I've tried with
>> ath9k or intel chipsets. I've not been able to get it working as most
>> of the vendors didn't implement this.
>>
>> Is there a different way to enforce specific wireless mode on station?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ram
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-17 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-07 18:50 How to enforce Wireless Mode of Station? Ramprasad Vempati
2015-10-17  9:59 ` Ramprasad Vempati
2015-10-17 14:49   ` Ben Greear [this message]

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