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Re: mac80211: Question about beacons

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On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 15:57 +1000, Iwo Mergler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to debug the AP mode of the rt73usb driver. It works OK,
> as far as I can tell, but there are no beacons in the air. Not even garbled
> packets. The AP is happy to respond to SSID broadcast requests though.
> 
> Now, when starting hostapd, the driver gets three rt73usb_beacon_update()
> calls (struct ieee80211_ops ->beacon_update()). The SKBs passed in are
> identical IEEE802.11 beacon packets, with the sequence numbers 0, 1 and 2.
> 
> I believe the hardware is supposed to be auto-beaconing.
> 
> Here is the question: why three calls? I would have expected a single 
> call for
> such a device.

That's because hostapd sets various parameters and the beacon changes
every time. Don't worry about it.

johannes

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