Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754482Ab0BBEck (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:32:40 -0500 Received: from li59-9.members.linode.com ([97.107.129.9]:58619 "EHLO erley.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752532Ab0BBEcj (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:32:39 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 428 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:32:39 EST Message-ID: <4B67A937.70406@erley.org> Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:25:27 -0500 From: Pat Erley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100112 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Levitsky , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Johannes Berg , Witold Sowa , linux-wireless , Till Kamppeter , Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lsb-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas References: <43e72e891001281338u5f05307ble5360c3dac6ab9a2@mail.gmail.com> <4B65F024.3080505@gmail.com> <1264972854.3597.17.camel@johannes.local> <43e72e891002011001l4e914094v33e73209a9da93e8@mail.gmail.com> <1265055284.26421.16.camel@maxim-laptop> <20100201221252.GA30758@emergent.ellipticsemi.com> In-Reply-To: <20100201221252.GA30758@emergent.ellipticsemi.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1377 Lines: 41 On 02/01/10 17:12, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 22:14 Mon 01 Feb , Maxim Levitsky wrote: >> 2 - Allow a wireless card to associate to several APs at once (if they >> share the frequency). >> Implement this at least for ath5/9k. Madwifi had that feature. Maybe >> ath9k has. If it has that feature, test it. > > I haven't actually tried this particular case, but this is ostensibly > already supported by mac80211: iw allows you to create several wireless > interfaces that share a phy, which can then be configured into different > modes (I've used station + monitor successfully in the past). > With ath9k I have used: AP + MP AP + STA AP + AP (Open and WPA2) using both the debug interface to ath9k's internal multi-vif support (never tested MP with ath9k multi-vif) and mac80211. I know that if you use the ath9k internal method, you can operate on multiple channels at a sacrifice to throughput. I have not tested if mac80211 supports multiple channels. It's as easy as: AP+MP and AP+STA: Start Hostapd Create interface with iw use second interface. AP+AP Configure hostapd for multiple bss start hostapd Pat Erley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/