Thanks for the explication.
Do you know an other sdio chipset that would do the job ?
BR,
David.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 09:05 +0100, David MOUSSAUD wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to apply the first patch of this thread to have the
>> cfg80211 support to my driver but I do not succeed to select the goot
>> git repository or the goot release tarball (linux kernel/compat
>> wireless) to start.
>>
>> Does someone could help me for that ?
>>
>> Furthermore, I have an at91sam9260 atmel evk board with a wi2wi (which
>> embeded a 8686 libertas chip) sdio evk. I need to have my board
>> running as an Access Point.
>> Could someone tell me if, applying this patch, it will works ?
>>
>> For my understanding, I think it will because it is written that the
>> driver with cfg80111 can now work in monitor mode, which is ok for
>> hostapd to act as an AP.
>
> This isn't going to work. The fullmac Libertas devices (8385, 8388,
> 8686, etc) do not have the firmware capability to operate in AP mode.
> cfg80211 is simply a better configuration interface than WEXT, it does
> not magically add AP mode capability.
>
> Dan
>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> D.MOUSSAUD.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Holger Schurig
>> <holgerschurig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > + bss = cfg80211_get_bss(wiphy, sme->channel,
>> sme->bssid,
>> > + sme->ssid, sme->ssid_len,
>> > + WLAN_CAPABILITY_ESS,
>> WLAN_CAPABILITY_ESS);
>> > +
>> > + if (!bss) {
>> > + if (sme->bssid || sme->ssid_len !=
>> IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN) {
>> > + DECLARE_SSID_BUF(ssid);
>> > + lbs_pr_err("associate: BSS %s not in
>> scan results\n",
>> > + print_ssid(ssid,
>> sme->ssid, sme->ssid_len));
>> > + ret = -ENOENT;
>> > + }
>> > +
>> > + goto done;
>> > + }
>>
>>
>> I have again some time for Libertas :-)
>>
>> I'm still not getting this code at all, especially the code
>> inside
>> "if (!bss)". You set "ret = -ENOENT", but only under some
>> circumstances. When they aren't met, we go to label done,
>> but with "ret=0", e.g. we didn't connect, but still we won't
>> return an error.
>>
>> Also, you print the SSID, but name it "BSS". A BSS is
>> kind-of-a-mac-address. So the text in the printk should
>> be "associate: no SSID %s in scan results". Or you print
>> the BSS from sme->
>>
>> And then I don't get why there is a comparison
>> sme->ssid_len != IEEE80211_MAX_SSID_LEN. print_ssid()
>> handles this.
>>
>>
>>
>> Wouldn't this snipped do the work:
>>
>> lbs_deb_enter(LBS_DEB_CFG80211);
>> bss = cfg80211_get_bss(wiphy, sme->channel, sme->bssid,
>> sme->ssid, sme->ssid_len,
>> WLAN_CAPABILITY_ESS, WLAN_CAPABILITY_ESS);
>>
>> if (!bss) {
>>
>> lbs_pr_err("no matching AP found in last scan
>> \n");
>> ret = -ENOENT;
>> goto done;
>> }
>> lbs_deb_assoc("trying %pM", sme->bssid);
>>
>>
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