Hi, Aneeq I think some management frames, such as probe request, association request, will be effectively "acknowledged" by probe response and association response.
Beacon is normally broadcasted by AP to in-range mobile stations. It may not be a very good idea for every MS to ACK beacon frames sent by the same AP. On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Aneeq Mahmood <its.an...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry for hijacking the thread but does the same procedure apply for > management packets such as beacons where there is no ACk packets? > From what i have experienced, beacon transmission is not notified by a > Tx interrupt, or am i wrong? > thanks > cheers! > > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Bob Copeland <m...@bobcopeland.com> wrote: >> >> The hardware handles it completely so you won't get an rx interrupt for >> these packets. But you will get TX completion interrupt for the packet >> that is being ACKed when the ACK is received, and the tx status will >> indicate success or failure. >> >> -- >> Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ath5k-devel mailing list >> ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org >> https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > ath5k-devel mailing list > ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org > https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel > > _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list ath5k-devel@lists.ath5k.org https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
