Re: [ath5k-devel] AP mode support in ath5k

2010-03-11 Thread Joerg Pommnitz
--- Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayl...@siriusit.co.uk wrote: Von: Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayl...@siriusit.co.uk Betreff: Re: [ath5k-devel] AP mode support in ath5k An: Luis R. Rodriguez lrodrig...@atheros.com CC: Joerg Pommnitz pommn...@yahoo.com, Michael Buesch m...@bu3sch.de,

Re: [ath5k-devel] AP mode support in ath5k

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Joerg Pommnitz wrote: Luis, Bob, Mark, can you suggest a known to be working software combination? Might there be a special problem with AR5212 based cards (PCI ID 168C:0013)? Is there anything I can help to track down the problem I see? Regards Joerg Hi Joerg, I've just checked on

[ath5k-devel] Received frame types in monitor mode

2010-03-11 Thread Alastair McKinley
Hi everyone, I have encountered unexpected behaviour of ath5k from compat-wireless 2.6.33. In monitor mode, my ath5k based monitor interface appears to only receive a limited subset of frame types (at least acks, beacons, and probe requests). It does not receive authentication frames and

Re: [ath5k-devel] AP mode support in ath5k

2010-03-11 Thread Bob Copeland
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 07:44:33AM -0800, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: ath5k AP mode is rock stable on 2.6.32, if two patches are applied. (Search the list archives). I did not test 2.6.33, yet. But this release should include those patches out of the box. For what it's worth, I described my

[ath5k-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ath5k: fix setup for CAB queue

2010-03-11 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
From: Bob Copeland m...@bobcopeland.com The beacon sent gating doesn't seem to work with any combination of flags. Thus, buffered frames tend to stay buffered forever, using up tx descriptors. Instead, use the DBA gating and hold transmission of the buffered frames until 80% of the beacon