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Re: ar9170 in AP mode

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Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx> writes:

> the ar9170 is not advertising its AP feature. However, hacking in the
> bit allows me to run an AP on my D-Link DWA 160A with the sources of
> yesterday's wireless-testing. Works mostly fine so far, just device
> startup (firmware loading?) is sometimes a bit fragile, and rate control
> seems to jump more than needed when the connection gets worse.
>
> There was some telling the multicast transmission would not work, but I
> just tested it and cannot confirm this. Did something change or does a
> specific multicast scenario still fail? Otherwise I would like to see AP
> mode enabled in the ar9170 so that it works without modifying kernel
> sources. Would post a patch then.

Did you test with a client which had power save mode enabled? That's
the tricky part. 

IMHO AP mode should not be enabled until it's confirmed that power
save mode works properly.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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