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Re: No beacons in ad-hoc mode with b43

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On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:13:32 +0200
Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2011/9/17 Manuel Munz <freifunk@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > i want to use b43 on older broadcom wireless routers with openwrt, but
> > there seems to be a problem: The router doesn't send beacons in adhoc
> > mode (verified with wireshark), which means users can't see the network
> > in a network scan. So is there a problem in the adhoc implementation
> > with b43? Could someone please have a look at this? It is preventing us
> > from using b43 in our mesh for too long now.

adhoc is not tested a lot with b43 and nobody is really interested in it.
I _think_ it used to work, however.
You should probably compare AP vs adhoc codepaths. AP mode an adhoc are very
similar with only tiny differences in the driver.

> > Router:
> > Siemens SE505 (very similar to wrt54g), Broadcom 4712 WLAN (core revision 7)
> 
> Please give us at least
> lspci -nn | grep 14e4

This is an embedded device.

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