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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:03:47 +0200
From: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be>
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To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] Few questions about the wireless stack
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Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to understand the relationship between
>> wireless interfaces (wlan0, mon0,..) and wireless driver.
>>
>> The most important question I am after, is what types of interfaces I can
>> run simultaneously? (I know that I can run station and monitor, but 
>> what are other  combinations ?)
>>
>> I noticed that in monitor mode iwl3945 appends so called 'radiotap' 
>> header to received packets, but
>> it seems that mac80211 strips this header, and appends its own,
>> for monitor interfaces, if so, then why to append it?
>>
>>
>> And lastly, when you expect AP code to be released?
>>
> 
> I would be glad to hear about this, I have absolutely no free time to 
> dig that out.
> 

Last i can remember about the subject was Tomas
some months ago.

iirc the statement was something similar to:
- 3945 is a mini PCIe card, and hence not deployed in embedded? devices,
therefore master mode support isn't planned for 3945
- patches are welcome

http://osdir.com/ml/linux.drivers.ipw3945.devel/2007-11/threads.html#00177

cheers
> 
> Maxim Levitsky
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