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Hi Kalle:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-wireless-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-wireless-
> owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kalle Valo
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:32 PM
> To: Lin Tony-B19295
> Cc: Hauke Mehrtens; mcgrof@xxxxxxxxx; rodrigue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; rmani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] compat-wireless: ath6kl moved to main area.
> 
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On 08/15/2011 09:59 PM, Lin Tony-B19295 wrote:
> >
> > 	Some questions regarding this ath6kl driver.
> > 	Does it support all AR6003 card family? As I know there're several
> > types of AR6003 cards
> 
> hw2.1.1 is supported and I'm using that for testing. The driver also
> supports hw2.0 but I haven't tested that so there might be some issues.
> hw1.0 is not supported.
> 
> > 	Does it support master mode?
> 
> Not yet, but hopefully in the near future.
> 
> > I tried the driver, seems it doesn't. need your confirmation.
> > 		root@freescale ~$ iwconfig wlan0 mode master
> > 		Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
> >     		SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
> 
> Like Julian said, you need to use hostapd.
> 
> > 	Does it support suspend/resume well? From my experiments, seems not.
> After resuming, connection is lost.
> 
> I have a patch pending to add suspend support and will send it as soon as
> I find some free time. But the wifi connection will be lost in resume
> anyway. If you want to maintain the connection to AP during suspend then
> you are looking for wowlan support which ath6kl doesn't currently support.
> 

Do you have any plan supporting it?
Thanks for your help
Besides, the performance seems not good. I got only 5Mb/s station->station performance. While another driver released from your AE could reach at least 10Mb/s, do you have any idea?

> Kalle
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