hi!
i've got an rtl8187l and want to use it in Ad-Hoc mode (actually
pseudo_adhoc would actually even be enough!). i researched a little bit
and found out that ad-hoc-, master- and mesh-mode are unsupported due to
the lack of beacon generation support in the mac80211 version of the
rtl8187 driver.
as the softmac card probably doesn't support generating beacons in
firmware, does that mean we need to setup a beacon generation fork
repeatedly calling
ieee80211_beacon_get
and then sending the beacon? (very roughly, i'm guessing after reading
any 802.11 code for 20 minutes)
probably a timing-critical task which needs to bypass the usual buffers
and such i can imagine...
anyway. pseudo_adhoc (i.e. ad-hoc without beacons) is a nice thing and
works great for use with user-space mesh-routing solutions such as OLSR,
batman or babel. however, i guess as pseudo_adhoc is violating the
standards (though it is very usefull) it might never be supported by
anything else than proprietary drivers made by Atheros (afaik).
so. i want to use this hardware (RTL8187L) for this task (OLSR). any
ideas? where should i start wasting my brain-time?
ot: anyone ever tried compiling the FullMAC r8187 driver (aircrack) for
Atheros/MIPS systems?
cheers
daniel
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