On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 09:30:27AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > This means that your sleeping clients will not be receiving multicast, > and as such be invisible to the network once they fall off the ARP/NDP > caches. This is the reason we have said that it will not be possible to > support AP mode with this card. I'm curious how, if at all, the vendor > driver handles that. My completely uninformed guess is that they ignore it. I will hazard a guess that most scenarios involving "laptop as AP" are for support of devices that don't (or at least didn't) do a lot of sleeping, like other laptops. I'm still a bit "on the fence" regarding this requirement for AP mode. I think there is a reasonable body of users that would prefer a not-quite-right AP mode over no AP mode at all. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
