On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/07/2011 12:10 PM, Daniel Halperin wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Ben Greear<greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>>> >>>> Start on 5 GHZ AP with HT Only set. Scan. What rate are probes sent >>>> at for 2.4 GHz? >> >> No HT20 is not the same as HT-Only. I'm not sure how to set that. Jouni? > > I found a post from a year or so ago that indicates hostapd doesn't > support this type of thing (that could have changed, of course). > > Do you know of any commercial APs that support the HT-only feature? > (And/Or a general strategy for configuring it?) > >>> On 5Ghz channels, they are sent at 6Mbps >>> On channel 3 (2.4Ghz), they are sent at 1Mbps >>> >>> >>> That seem right? >> >> Yes, for a HT20 but not HT Only AP. > > Seems to me that the probe-request is to any/all APs, > so how could we possibly know that we should send it > at 6Mbps v/s 1Mbps until we discovered and communicated > with it? Just as there are G-only APs that don't advertise 1-11 Mbps in their beacons, there are HT-only APs that don't advertise support for 1-11 or 6-54 Mbps in their beacons and *only* support MCS rates. Dan -- 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
