On Sat, 2 May 2009 11:34:31 +0100 Luis Correia <luis.f.correia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, the bug is not in hostapd. > > As Johannes says, the bug is in the driver. > Apparently, the driver is unable to get the ACK from the hardware and > thus unable to report that ACK back to hostapd. > > So the hostapd hack works, as long as there are enough room for > retransmit supposely lost frames. > > I can't explain this well enough in English, sorry. Apparently there is no bug in neither hostapd nor the driver. From what I understood the hardware is incapable of doing it or the firmware needs to be fixed. > To be completely honest with you in this whole AP issue, here's what I > used to say to my friends: "if you need an AP working flawlessly under > Linux, got with the Atheros b/g hardware". > But that was in the madwifi days, I haven't tested it with the current > mac80211 based driver. But if he can't use anything else than a USB dongle than Atheros is useless. In my case I can't use anything else than a USB dongle on my AP because there's only one case you can use for this embedded board (ALIX 2d3) and it doesn't have a hole for an external antenna as it's the model with 3 ethernet ports. -- Christoph .J Thompson <cjsthompson@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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
