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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 10:35:54 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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To: David Ellingsworth <david@identd.dyndns.org>
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Subject: Re: b43legacy AP
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David Ellingsworth wrote:
> I wanted to report that I've finally been successful at getting
> b43legacy to beacon properly. Originally, I had configured hostapd to
> use channel 1. After reading the list of bugs for the bwi driver,
> shown here: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=bwi , I
> had the inclination to try channel 6. It appears b43legacy might have
> the same bugs as the bwi driver as I immediately began seeing beacons
> once I started using channel 6.

I just tested and my 4311/1 running b43legacy sends beacons on channel 1. The
problem is likely in the initialization of the 4306 units. That is something I
will be investigating.

As far as I can tell, it should be OK to submit the b43legacy beacon patches.

Larry