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Re: Proposal enquiry for Wireless Roaming feature enhancement

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Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> >  2) a way of telling userspace whether or not it has to handle
>> >  roaming, now that new cards are showing up (iwm) that can handle it
>> >  themselves
>> 
>> What about older fullmac cards, do they support roaming in hardware?
>
> Yes.  airo at least, and I think also atmel, orinoco, but not Libertas.
> Most of the fullmac cards do handle roaming between BSSIDs in the same
> SSID transparently.  Libertas on the other hand pushes that control to
> the driver.

Can you tell anything about the configuration parameters available? For
example, can the driver configure an rssi threshold for enabling
background scanning[1]?

[1] I'm sure there are N+1 different names for this

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Kalle Valo
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