On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Michael Buesch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 16 March 2009 16:23:51 Larry Finger wrote:
>> Michael Buesch wrote:
>> >
>> > Did you check if it does actually work correctly? Especially beaconing.
>> > There were lots of changes to b43's beaconing, which were not ported to 
>> > legacy.
>>
>> I should probably look at porting those changes.
>>
>> My test AP showed up in a scan and I could authenticate and associate using
>> WPA1. I wasn't running DHCP so I couldn't get an IP and test actual traffic 
>> over
>> the link, but it seemed to be working.
>
> There were a few important changes made to the beaconing code that fix beacon 
> update,
> TIM update and other important stuff. The device worked more or less in AP 
> mode
> without these changes, but broke in certain circumstances like PS. (And it 
> also
> violated the IEEE 802.11, of course).
> The complete code should probably be simply ported over to legacy.
>
> --
> Greetings, Michael.
>

Thank you all for the helpful information... Once the weekend comes
around again, I'll take a look a trying to get something working. I'm
willing to help test and port the necessary changes to legacy as well.

Regards,

David Ellingsworth
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