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RE: iwlwifi support of 802.11k RRM (Radio Resource Mangament)

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-wireless-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-wireless-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Grumbach
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 14:53
> To: Stefan Feirer
> Cc: linux-wireless
> Subject: Re: iwlwifi support of 802.11k RRM (Radio Resource Mangament)
> 
> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Stefan Feirer
> <e0926020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to make different wifi roaming tests with the 802.11 amandments
> 802.11k and 802.11r.
> > I use the intel wifi chipset Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 and
> two Aerohive Access Points AP141 (with both 802.11k and 802.11r enabled).
> > With using wpa_supplicant (Version 2.5) and wpa_cli (Version 2.5) I was able
> to connect and roam between the APs by entering the command "roam
> <mac>" and actually an 802.11r roam was performed. Therefore the nl80211
> and iwlwifi driver was used.
> > So fast roaming seems to work properly, but I faced troubles with
> > Radio Resource Management (802.11k)
> >
> > Transmitting the command "neighbor_rep_request" in wpa_cli failed. I
> checked to log files and found the following lines:
> >
> > wlan0: Control interface command 'NEIGHBOR_REP_REQUEST'
> > RRM: No RRM in current connection.
> >
> > and
> >
> > RRM: Determining whether RRM can be used - device support: 0x0
> > RRM: Insufficient RRM support in driver - do not use RRM
> >
> > Now my question would be how to enable RRM, maybe using the iw-
> command?
> > I could not find any documenation or examples according to RRM.
> > The tests were performed with Ubuntu and Linux Kernel 3.13.0-79.
> >
> 
> Look at  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8421041/
> If the suggestion of Johannes is the direction taken (which happens quite
> often in mac8021..) then you'll get it.
> 

This would still require couple of changes in hostap which I'm preparing for submission.

Regards,

Ilan.
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