To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mac80211: Allow AP mode to be enabled
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From: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:51:04 +0200
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Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> writes:

>> Thanks a lot, I updated to hostap commit 4aac554c and it works now
>> with b43. I was able to associate with N810 and ping worked. Even PSM
>> seems to work, but I haven't made any power consumption measurements
>> yet.
>
> I'd be interested in power consumption measurements, but it should work
> fine.

I did some quick measurements with N810 and, like you mentioned,
hostapd/mac80211/b43 combination seems to work just fine. Tried with
DTIM 1 and 10 with beacon period of 100 ms and power consumption of
N810 is just like what I was expecting.

I have seen a lot of APs with buggy PSM implementation and this setup
isn't one of them :)

> There might be a slight bug in b43 wrt. the beacon timestamp offset
> though.

If there's a bug in b43 I cannot see it from my measurements. Usually
I have seen any problems with the TBTT right away.

-- 
Kalle Valo