I was able to do some testing on the rt73usb driver. As mentioned in an earlier post, the latest driver breaks the master mode. Although a linux client (x86 laptop) can connect to the rt73usb AP, a windows XP client (x86 laptop) cannot. I fails to obtain a DHCP address. In order to reproduce the bug, you need a big-endian system with a rt73usb stick, and hostapd. I did not test client mode for big-endian systems. Breaking down the different patches that were applied since 8 april 2009, I was able to identify the culprit. No solution yet, but I thought I should flag this as a bug. It is the following patch that breaks big-endian compatibility: *** Some hardware require L2 padding between header and payload because both must be aligned to a 4-byte boundary. This hardware also is easier during the RX path since we no longer need to move the entire payload but rather only the header to remove the padding (mac80211 only wants the payload to be 4-byte aligned). Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@...> --- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00.h | 10 ++++ drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00crypto.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++----------- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c | 33 +++++++------ drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.h | 27 +++++++++-- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00queue.h | 14 +++++- 6 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) (...) -- 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
