Return-path: Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.25]:7842 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752631AbZEKBzR (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 May 2009 21:55:17 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so819771eyd.37 for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 18:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 03:55:15 +0200 From: "Christoph .J Thompson" To: Luis Correia Cc: Jon Fairbairn , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: rt73usb Access point status Message-Id: <20090511035515.83c21b0c.cjsthompson@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <557754.25367.qm@web51403.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 2 May 2009 11:34:31 +0100 Luis Correia wrote: > No, the bug is not in hostapd. > > As Johannes says, the bug is in the driver. > Apparently, the driver is unable to get the ACK from the hardware and > thus unable to report that ACK back to hostapd. > > So the hostapd hack works, as long as there are enough room for > retransmit supposely lost frames. > > I can't explain this well enough in English, sorry. Apparently there is no bug in neither hostapd nor the driver. From what I understood the hardware is incapable of doing it or the firmware needs to be fixed. > To be completely honest with you in this whole AP issue, here's what I > used to say to my friends: "if you need an AP working flawlessly under > Linux, got with the Atheros b/g hardware". > But that was in the madwifi days, I haven't tested it with the current > mac80211 based driver. But if he can't use anything else than a USB dongle than Atheros is useless. In my case I can't use anything else than a USB dongle on my AP because there's only one case you can use for this embedded board (ALIX 2d3) and it doesn't have a hole for an external antenna as it's the model with 3 ethernet ports. -- Christoph .J Thompson