Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.25]:49107 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753681AbYKSPJD (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:09:03 -0500 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 6so1387595eyi.37 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:09:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: (sfid-20081119_160908_487944_055F7344) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:09:01 +0200 From: "Rami Rosen" To: "Johannes Berg" Subject: Re: [PATCH ] zd1211rw: enable master mode. (wireless-testing) Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, kune@deine-taler.de In-Reply-To: <1227106146.26243.43.camel@johannes.berg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <1226943608.3902.36.camel@johannes.berg> <1227106146.26243.43.camel@johannes.berg> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, Thanks for your answer. Now, after looking at the API doc , It seems to me that sequence numbering is also missing in the zd1211rw driver. Regards, Rami Rosen On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:49 PM, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 15:59 +0200, Rami Rosen wrote: > >> Two examples: >> 1.1) In the link below it says: "ZD1211 can operate in the mode of >> station and access point." >> http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Hardware/ZD1211-Driver-12712.shtml > > Maybe it can. > >> - Can you please elaborate a bit about how can we know whether a >> device support or does not support multicast buffering ? > > I have no idea. At minimum, the driver needs to do what the wiki says: > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/mac80211/API > You'll also want to read the 802.11 docs about this. > >> - Could it be that some zd1211 chipsets do support multicast >> buffering, and some do not ? > > Doubt it, they all use the same firmware. > > johannes >