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Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Saturday 16 May 2009, Jon Fairbairn wrote:
>> does it work as an AP in Windows?
>> If so, how does it get round the bug in the driver?
>
> Simply by indicating that every single frame passed to the driver has
> been send out succesfully and thus completely ignoring the real status.

Ugh. But Microsoft make the de-facto standards after all :-(
-- for a view that's illuminating, if depressing and
annoying to those of us who think there's a point to
compatibility, watch the talk Butler Lampson gave for Roger
Needham's 50+5 presentation
<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/events/needhambook/videos/1032/head.wmv>
(list of talks is at
<http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/events/needhambook/videos/default.htm>)

> I am awaiting a patch from Alexandre which will add that same behavior
> to rt2x00.

That would be great, thanks!

-- 
Jón Fairbairn                                 Jon.Fairbairn@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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