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Re: Manual Control about Sending ACKs

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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Michael BÃsch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 15:45 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>
> The ack mechanism is implemented in firmware for the b43 chip and I
> think it's understood pretty much completely how ACKing works in
> the firmware. So you may want to take a look at b43-openfwwf.
> The guys who created b43-openfwwf also experimented with this
> kind of stuff, so you might want to contact them.

You can also look at ath_hw_set_bssid_mask() for ath5k, ath9k, which
I've documented quite extensively:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/ath/hw.c;h=a8f81ea09f143cc56c981f80db73469196ddb4c6;hb=HEAD#l26

  Luis
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