On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/4/28 苏白龙 <subailong@xxxxxxx>: >> My question is:"Can all of the wireless networking cards run in mesh >> mode?" I think they all can. But why some can not as it is described in the >> web page http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers? Please give me the >> detailed reasons. Each driver must support several things as listed on this page under "MESH": http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/API in order to support mac80211's draft-802.11s mesh. Basically it must allow a mesh-mode interface, support mesh beaconing, and support certain RX filters. So drives do this and have been tested (for example, ath5k, b43, and zd1211rw). Others do use the mac80211 stack but either haven't been tested or don't support something that mesh mode requires. Any mac80211 driver that supports beaconing (at least for AP or IBSS) should be able to support mesh mode after making the changes listed in the API document. -- Andrey Yurovsky cozybit Inc. -- 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
