"Christoph .J Thompson" <cjsthompson@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. Is there any prospec of persuading Ralink either to release a mended version of the firmware or to free the old version? What is it that Alexandre Becholey is doing, though? It looked promising to me. >> 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. Quite. No free PCI slots, for example. > 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. I think my solution to that would involve HSS tools, but your point is a good one. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
