Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f10.google.com ([209.85.219.10]:59159 "EHLO mail-ew0-f10.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751302AbZAXLrN (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:47:13 -0500 Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so97335ewy.13 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:47:11 -0800 (PST) Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Ivo van Doorn Message-Id: <467E98EC-F5B1-4D79-914E-35E021125E37@icix.org> (sfid-20090124_124729_126540_9E9080BA) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ant=F3nio_Marques?= To: Andrey Yurovsky In-Reply-To: <45e8e6c40901231102y732b6929sce70b00ffcd8bef5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Subject: Re: rt2x00 mesh support Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:40:22 +0000 References: <45e8e6c40901231102y732b6929sce70b00ffcd8bef5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ok. I didn't realize the driver was broken and the issue wasn't specific to mesh support. I hope the driver maintainers can solve this soon. Thanks, Antonio Marques On Jan 23, 2009, at 19:02 , Andrey Yurovsky wrote: > Hi Antonio. As I understand it, beaconing is currently broken in > rt2x00 (it used to work in the past). This means that, until the > device can send beacons again, it won't be able to do mesh (or AP or > IBSS). However the commit in question at least sets up the driver to > support mesh as soon as beaconing works again. > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Antonio Marques > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have been trying to setup a mesh network using the 802.11s stack, >> but >> unfortunately the only hardware that I have readily available are >> rt2x00 >> usb dongles and an ath5k mini-pci card. Since support for rt2x00 >> driver is listed on o11s.org as being in development, what is the >> current >> status >> of mesh support for this driver? >> >> I see recent commit activity such as >> fdc26201323eb8ba543ac5624f8d71e55b6f7352, >> "rt2x00: Add mesh support" but I am still unable to establish mesh >> links >> using >> rt2x00 devices. An rt2x00 device can see the ath5k device according >> to >> 'iw dev mesh station dump', but the link state never changes to >> ESTAB. >> >> Thanks, >> Antonio Marques >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux- >> wireless" in >> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>