On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 17:30 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote: > > Also, I thought you were doing a fullmac chipset? Then you > > shouldn't be worrying about mac80211 *at all* > > Yes, unfortunately. > > Currently, Linux has only fullmac and softmac. However, I'm > working with a half-soft-half-full-mac hardware (libertas). What > I mean is that the generation of the low-level packets etc are > all done by the firmware in the card (fullmac). However, > issueing scans (for IBSS or Managed mode), selecting a proper AP > from the scan result, associating etc are all commands that the > PC has to send to the firmware. Are you talking about 88w838x parts here? > Some of this is not yet correctly working, e.g. when I kick out > the WLAN card from the AP, then libertas just notifies this, but > stays up ... it doesn't re-scan and re-associates. There are > other scenarios where the current libertas code doesn't > automatically re-scan/re-associate as well. > > All of this is included in net/mac80211/ieee80211_sta.c, but > tightly coupled to mac80211 so that it is unusable for > non-mac80211 cards. Sigh. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
