On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Johannes Berg<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 04:08 +0100, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > >> For the sake of being pedantic, can I have some reference (if only for >> those sleepless nights for lack of boring reading materials...)? Maybe >> I won't understand it anyway, but maybe somebody else who is >> listening in to this exchange can chip in. >> I have a 1300-page pdf supposedly the 802.11 2007 standard I >> downloaded some months ago through one of the wikipedia links, I think >> (somewhere under http://standards.ieee.org/) ... chapter 11 is MLME >> and section 11.2 is power management, which in turn is split into two >> sub-sections about power management in infrastructure nework and IBSS >> mode. I found a particular sentence in section 11.2.1. which sounds a >> bit like what you are saying (except with some cryptic acronyms!): >> >> ------ >> If any STA in its BSS is in PSmode, the AP shall buffer all broadcast >> and multicast MSDUs and deliver them to all STAs immediately >> following the next Beacon frame containing a DTIM transmission. >> ------ >> >> Have I found the right place to read up on such things, or there are >> other documents, etc (more detailed, or more "layman")? > > Yes, that's the right place. > >> On the broken-AP mode in the zd1211 vendor driver - presumably Zydas >> did not wrote that specially for linux, but just modified/adapted from >> their windows driver? So I guess windows users of zd1211 (or other USB >> sticks) are used to being able to do such things and assume whatever >> it does is normal? It just crossed my mind that if some off-spec >> behavior is sufficiently popular on windows (e.g. if >> connection-sharing requires AP mode to work and won't take IBSS), >> sometimes the spec gets modified to ratify a formerly barbaric >> off-spec behavior. > > I don't think windows supports being an AP at all, afaict it's > connection sharing will create an IBSS. > > johannes > That's not what I meant (though Windows can operate in AP mode using the utility provided for Zydas cards), but rather using the Linux machine to give Internet connection to a Windows machine. AFAIK Windows will never use an IBSS connection for Internet access purposes, and only allows Internet through wireless if connected to an AP. -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
