How to enforce Wireless Mode of Station?

How to enforce Wireless Mode of Station?

[Ramprasad Vempati]

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

Re: How to enforce Wireless Mode of Station?

[Ramprasad Vempati]

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

Re: How to enforce Wireless Mode of Station?

[Ben Greear]

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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