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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: softmac roaming behaviour
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:48:51 +0100
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On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 13:27 +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Are these problems still present in the current kernels

yes.

> and if so, how can they be fixed?

by adding code to do all that to softmac. Note that that isn't such a
great idea because softmac is destined to reach end-of-life soon.

I suggest you investigate using d80211 (some people started zd1211rw
ports to it but I don't know if any works) and use wpa_supplicant for
the roaming.

johannes