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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:37:59 +0200
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Subject: Re: 802.11n status (iwlagn)
From: David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@gmail.com>
To: reinette chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Jason Newton <nevion@gmail.com>,
	"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
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Hello,
Two questions regarding this topic:

1)does latest wireless-testing git tree
support 802.11n in 5100AGN-based chips ?

2)Is the TX aggregation problem is also the same and relevant to 5100AGN?

Regards,
DavidS


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:39 PM, reinette chatre
<reinette.chatre@intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 23:13 -0800, Jason Newton wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been searching around for a long time now and I find it difficult
>> to understand what the current status of 802.11n is in linux as a whole
>> and what it is with respect to iwlagn (4965 chipset specifically).  I
>> want high-speed and reliable wireless :-)
>>
>> Also, it would seem iwlagn n/ht still isn't working in 2.6.28?
>>
>> To anyone who can clear all this up for me, I'd be much appreciative.
>>
>
> 802.11n does work in 2.6.28 - the speed is not there as changes in the
> kernel caused breakage of TX aggregation. Other functionality of HT was
> not affected. We recently started looking at getting TX aggregation
> working again.
>
> Reinette
>
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