On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 01:28:19 +0000 (GMT) Hin-Tak Leung <ht...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I use it mainly for the AP mode, on an old machine that has just been > resurrected after over a year, so the last it worked was on 2.6.31.x . There > are a couple of old and new quirks: a dozen of 'We are trapped in > zd_SigProcess, Going to release all,id=3,block=1' is new to 2.6.35.x, but the > driver has always needed if down/up and or iwlist scan before a client > station can connect, and that's still the case; and under extended use (a few > days, and/or a few GB traffic) it can still bring the AP machine down. > > I see some great person has just had a whole bunch of patches committed to > wireless-testing in the last few months for enabling AP mode for the > in-kernel zd1211rw driver... so 2.6.39(?) or thereabout it would be generally > available...so the use of the vendor driver for AP mode would soon not be > needed any more. I'd probably give the compat-wireless a try soon enough. There is a patch at http://ankalagon.ru/notes/patch-na-zd1211rw which adds AP mode in a very simple way, and it actually works! I had to modify the first hunk slightly for kernel 2.6.38, modified patch below: --- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c 2009-08-17 01:19:38.000000000 +0400 +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c 2009-08-22 21:05:06.268498867 +0400 @@ -882,6 +882,7 @@ case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT: case NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION: case NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC: + case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP: mac->type = vif->type; break; default: @@ -1046,6 +1047,7 @@ dev_dbg_f(zd_mac_dev(mac), "changes: %x\n", changes); if (mac->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT || + mac->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP || mac->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) { associated = true; if (changes & BSS_CHANGED_BEACON) { @@ -1143,6 +1145,7 @@ hw->wiphy->interface_modes = BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT) | BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) | + BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) | BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC); hw->max_signal = 100; Regards, Nerijus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
