From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Balaji Ravindran <b@w1an.in>,
"linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Mircea Gherzan <mgherzan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal enquiry for Wireless Roaming feature enhancement
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:51:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k534nwy3.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245681796.4338.24.camel@dhcp-100-3-98.bos.redhat.com> (Dan Williams's message of "Mon\, 22 Jun 2009 10\:43\:16 -0400")
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> writes:
>> > 2) a way of telling userspace whether or not it has to handle
>> > roaming, now that new cards are showing up (iwm) that can handle it
>> > themselves
>>
>> What about older fullmac cards, do they support roaming in hardware?
>
> Yes. airo at least, and I think also atmel, orinoco, but not Libertas.
> Most of the fullmac cards do handle roaming between BSSIDs in the same
> SSID transparently. Libertas on the other hand pushes that control to
> the driver.
Can you tell anything about the configuration parameters available? For
example, can the driver configure an rssi threshold for enabling
background scanning[1]?
[1] I'm sure there are N+1 different names for this
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-22 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-17 3:46 Proposal enquiry for Wireless Roaming feature enhancement Balaji Ravindran
2009-06-17 6:20 ` Kalle Valo
2009-06-17 9:36 ` Johannes Berg
2009-06-18 12:32 ` Kalle Valo
2009-06-22 14:43 ` Dan Williams
2009-06-22 14:51 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2009-06-22 15:44 ` Dan Williams
2009-06-23 8:01 ` Holger Schurig
2009-06-28 14:07 ` Dave
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