On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 09:50 -0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > iwlwifi does not support AP mode in any way. For one, it doesn't even > buffer multicast/broadcast frames properly. We didn't allow zd1211rw AP > mode to be enabled without this, so iwlwifi shouldn't be allowed to > advertise AP mode either. > > It also doesn't work at all, it doesn't even answer to probe requests, > I'm guessing the packet injection code was disabled again. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > FYI, I've also tested AP mode on iwl5000 and it most definitely does not > work properly: > > [ 471.524478] iwlagn: ERROR: APs don't scan > > this is a long-standing bug, of course APs scan to know their > surroundings, not sure why this is there, it's also very pointless since > I can remove it by enabling software scan... > > [ 487.507346] iwlagn: Microcode SW error detected. Restarting 0x2000000. > > apparently even the microcode doesn't like AP mode :) Note that I've > done nothing out of the ordinary, just started hostapd. > > Once somebody cares to fix the code these two lines can be put back > easily, I haven't ripped out the actual support code. But when you do > please test with PS clients and multicast traffic. > > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c | 1 - > drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c | 1 - > 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-) > Acked-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> Reinette -- 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
