On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Mark Williamson wrote:
Hi,
Hi Mark,
Hence to address this, initial work was taken for the acx driver to utilise the mac80211 stack and a new acx driver called acx-mac80211 was written (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Acx-mac80211). IMHO this still very much WIP and is nowhere near as stable as the original acx driver. But, perhaps the largest sticking point is that the acx-mac80211 driver, unlike acx, does not support AP (master) mode. I have struggled to find out whether this is an issue in the acx-mac80211 driver component or in fact the mac80211 does not support master mode at this moment in time. Can anyone shed some light on this and help clear up my ongoing confusion?
I'm the guy who started the acx-softmac to acx-mac80211 conversion, and my intention was to provide ap support for the card, but I've had other projects come up demanding my attention. So I apologize for its WIP state.
I'll have to defer to those working on nl80211/lib80211 and hostapd to answer whether mac80211 actually supports AP mode, I recall a comment about b43/legacy being the only driver to actively support Master?
Anyway, I spoke with a guy who was interested in continuing work on the acx-mac80211 a couple of months back, he seemed eager but I've not heard anything from him since.
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