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Re: mac80211 AP mode powersaving problems?

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On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 09:41 -0700, Russell Senior wrote:

>   I have yet to see (maybe I am just blind), except for a very sparse
>   smattering of examples, a description of how mac80211 is intended to
>   be used.  I've never needed hostapd for master-mode before.  

That is, I expect, because you had a device that handled all that in
hardware/firmware. We now handle many MLME things in software, and have
pushed it out of the kernel into userspace.

>   I am
>   not even sure what it does.

It handles everything from association to encryption etc.

>   Is there somewhere I should be looking
>   for user-level documentation?

http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd/
But I think you need git version to compile against the current
wireless-dev 'everything' branch.

johannes

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