Hello, Probing the code, it seems to me that the wiki is not accurate when specifying which drivers support Access Point mode, when you think of doing multicast buffering correctly The wiki says: "For AP mode, it must honour IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM or set IEEE80211_HW_HOST_BROADCAST_PS_BUFFERING and use the ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() function" see: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/API However, I found out that in wireless-testing, this is the situation: IEEE80211_TX_CTL_SEND_AFTER_DTIM appears only in rt2x00mac.c There is a call to ieee80211_get_buffered_bc() only in: 1) drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/beacon.c 2) wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/libertas_tf/main.c According to this , b43/b43legacy (Broadcom chips), Intel ipw2200, and and p54 (Intersil chips) should not appear to support masted mode in the wiki, in the following URL: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers Am I right ? Mark On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:34 +0100, Vladimir Koutny wrote: >> >> More specifically, I am particularly interested to know whether Intel >> >> iwl3945 and Intel iwl4965 support AP (Master Mode), and in case they >> >> do not (as I am afraid is the situation) >> >> - is there any intention to add AP (masted mode) support to these drivers >> >> in the near future ? >> > >> > The driver announces AP mode support (look for NL80211_IFTYPE_AP and >> > hw->wiphy->interface_modes in iwl-core.c and iwl3945-base.c), so it >> > might work, or at least the intention is to make it work. By the way, >> > rt2x00 announces AP mode support too (in some conditions). >> >> I've tested AP mode on iwl4965 about 2 weeks ago and a very quick test did >> work (no encryption, just connected a win notebook to it and did some >> browsing). Just be sure to fetch correct (=recent) versions of hostapd and >> libnl.. > > I don't think it'll do mcast buffering correctly. > > johannes > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
