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Hi,

I am only loading mac80211_hwsim with the parameter "radios=2". I am not specifying anything about "channels", which looking at the code should be 1.

Cheers

Daniel



El Jueves 5 de diciembre de 2013 17:11, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:


> I would like to use wmediumd with linuxwireless backports 3.10.
> 
> The problem is that as indicated in this
> post: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg96575.html,
> wmediumd is not supported in this kernel. Quoting from the post:
> 
> "To use mac80211_hwsim for testing channel contexts it has to support
> them, and for that it has to support hw scan and hw-remain-on-channel.
> Since it's pure software, the off-channel activities are really not
> off-channel but listening and sending on a second channel. Also, the
> multi-channel isn't really doing TDM, it's just on both channels at
> the same time. 
> Note that this breaks wmediumd right now as it doesn't propagate the
> channel."

This should only affect hwsim if you load it with channels=2 or more,
are you doing that?

johannes
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