Am Do 29. Mai 2008 schrieb Andy Green: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > |> Please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the WiFi chip in > |> fact _can_ do AP mode, but that mode is not allowed in the open source > |> driver. > | > | its a firmware. the wifi module has its own firmware and does the 802.11 > | handling there autonomous. > | that concept is called hardmac and was there earlier, e.g on the old > | 'orinoco silver' aka hermes pcmcia cards. > > or "fullmac". It just doesn't support Master mode. > > | that firmware can currently do client mode and ad-hoc. > | _in theory_ every wifi radio can do ap-mode, its just a question if you > | can send packets at a low-enough layer in the right format. > | this is controlled by firmware on the wifi module in this specific case. > > It's also a matter of receiving bulk packets efficiently and they don't > give us monitor mode either. > > We're helpless unless Atheros decided to implement Master mode in their > closed firmware. Unfortunately the power advantages of having the bulk > of the ieee80211 actions managed in the firmware are pretty compelling > so I don't know how we get out of that bind. >
Well it's some time ago since I read about Soft|Hard|Free|FullMAC for prism chipsets. Dunno whether there was a way to run even fullmac cards with a softmac stack. A much more interesting point: where is the firmware to download to our Atheros-chip. (NO, no flamewar on free firmware|no firmware again!). Just a simple question: do we have any way to reflash the FW? /jOERG
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