Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f208.google.com ([209.85.217.208]:60817 "EHLO mail-gx0-f208.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753288AbZCXUtC (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:49:02 -0400 Received: by gxk4 with SMTP id 4so6906733gxk.13 for ; Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:49:00 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <871vsmrekh.fsf@litku.valot.fi> References: <871vsmrekh.fsf@litku.valot.fi> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:48:59 -0400 Message-ID: (sfid-20090324_214907_712583_E14D9763) Subject: Re: Adhoc-demo support in mac80211 From: ming li To: Kalle Valo Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, The adhoc-demo mode is also called pseudo-adhoc mode. It is simply the ad-hoc mode without control pkts. It does not probe for or associate to adjacent adhoc networks. The user has to set all the nodes to the same channel manually. The good thing of adhoc-demo is that it does not have the beaconing overhead or the IBSS merging/splitting problem. We used adhoc-demo mode under madwifi for long time and it worked perfectly. Now we have to shift to ath9k but found out the mode is not supported. I am just wondering if there is an easy way to hack adhoc mode to disable beaconing and association. Thanks, Ming On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Kalle Valo wrote: > ming li writes: > >> I am wondering how hard it is to add support for ahdemo mode in mac80211. >> My understanding of ahdemo is that it does not have the beacons or the >> association process as in adhoc mode. > > Can you provide more information about this Adhoc-demo mode? I have > never heard of it. > > -- > Kalle Valo >