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On Wednesday 22 September 2010 15:02:45 John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:39:53PM +0200, Daniel Berger wrote:
> 
> > Thus I deduce ACK sending is completely done in hardware.
> 
> Yes, I believe this is the case with all of our supported hardware.
> 
> > Is my conclusion and understanding right? Is there any possible solution
> > to my problem of sending ACKs manually? Would that be fast enough for
> > the SIFS and other stations' ACK timeout?
> 
> I suspect you need to be looking at hacking firmware.
> You might look at the open-source ar9170 firmware
> or the b43-openfwwf project.

probably not ar9170 either.
The ACK - mechanism (response control) is mostly hardwired in
the chip, there is not much to control here.
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