Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:06:13 -0600 (CST)
From: Jeff Williams <angelbane@ou.edu>
To: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@imperial.ac.uk>
cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Queries about acx-mac80211 master mode support on the AR7 platform
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Mark Williamson wrote:

> Hi,
Hi Mark,

>
> Hence to address this, initial work was taken for the acx driver to
> utilise the mac80211 stack and a new acx driver called acx-mac80211 was
> written (http://acx100.sourceforge.net/wiki/Acx-mac80211).  IMHO this
> still very much WIP and is nowhere near as stable as the original acx
> driver. But, perhaps the largest sticking point is that the acx-mac80211
> driver, unlike acx, does not support AP (master) mode. I have struggled
> to find out whether this is an issue in the acx-mac80211 driver
> component or in fact the mac80211 does not support master mode at this
> moment in time. Can anyone shed some light on this and help clear up my
> ongoing confusion?

I'm the guy who started the acx-softmac to acx-mac80211 conversion, and my 
intention was to provide ap support for the card, but I've had other 
projects come up demanding my attention. So I apologize for its WIP state.

I'll have to defer to those working on nl80211/lib80211 and hostapd to 
answer whether mac80211 actually supports AP mode, I recall a comment 
about b43/legacy being the only driver to actively support Master?

Anyway, I spoke with a guy who was interested in continuing work on the 
acx-mac80211 a couple of months back, he seemed eager but I've not heard 
anything from him since.

I'm sorry I couldn't help you more,
Jeff