Return-path: Received: from crystal.sipsolutions.net ([195.210.38.204]:36295 "EHLO sipsolutions.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762193AbXH3Ou2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:50:28 -0400 Subject: Re: mac80211, iwlwifi and packet injection From: Johannes Berg To: Andy Green Cc: Dan Williams , ian , Robert =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=FChricht?= , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <46D6D759.2050600@warmcat.com> References: <20070829161655.7f68542c@doppelhertz> <46D5B8B9.8000803@telenet.be> <46D5CE9B.8080401@warmcat.com> <1188481073.27590.11.camel@xo-3E-67-34.localdomain> <46D6D18F.2080108@warmcat.com> <1188483950.3978.15.camel@johannes.berg> <46D6D759.2050600@warmcat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-UVM+Dz1UksRt0vOtKqQo" Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:51:23 +0200 Message-Id: <1188485483.3978.25.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-UVM+Dz1UksRt0vOtKqQo Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:42 +0100, Andy Green wrote: > Well if for whatever reason you can spawn multiple logical network > interfaces in the stack, as you can, NM should generically be aware that > aliases exist it seems to me. It could be aware of that, but I don't think it helps. > If a device can handle two associations simultaneously (with two > radios?), which I take the "multiple STA" to mean, maybe it should > present as two wiphys and NM can take the hint from that? No, no can do. You must be on the same channel etc. so it really is just a single wiphy, but the card can allow multiple associations. It's not possible with any drivers right now but I'm fairly sure we can add support for that to b43 (if only with some microcode changes) I think that NM should probably just ignore non-STA mode interfaces completely. johannes --=-UVM+Dz1UksRt0vOtKqQo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Johannes Berg (powerbook) iD8DBQBG1tlr/ETPhpq3jKURArQNAJ4o5aeN79EdVYRG5HRlih2bFCwgEwCeI21y G4hdLtYXvxXJYAYSP6IFSaI= =RiLE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-UVM+Dz1UksRt0vOtKqQo--