Andrea Merello <andreamrl@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Even if potentially the 802.11 protocol can probably work even without > beacons (even it might seems a contraddiction, I think it is true if > you are NOT using powersave functionality), currently I suspect the > mac80211 wants them in order to calculate network quality (missed > beacon rate) and it might even send more probes (TX is other power > burnt out) if it cannot detect beacons. mac80211 does support beacon filtering, see IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTER for more. > Even worse, even if one will modify the mac80211 in order to live > without beacons, I think it can't be told to the rtl8187 to filter out > beacons. The HW can filter out all management frames, but not only > beacons. Yeah, HW support is needed for this feature. -- Kalle Valo -- 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
