Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41874 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751704AbZEQIrV (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 04:47:21 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M5c1d-0006G3-4N for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Sun, 17 May 2009 08:47:17 +0000 Received: from cpc2-cmbg9-0-0-cust621.cmbg.cable.ntl.com ([82.16.102.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 08:47:17 +0000 Received: from jon.fairbairn by cpc2-cmbg9-0-0-cust621.cmbg.cable.ntl.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 08:47:17 +0000 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: Jon Fairbairn Subject: Re: rt73usb Access point status Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 09:47:04 +0100 Message-ID: References: <557754.25367.qm@web51403.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090512215817.bd1c6895.cjsthompson@gmail.com> <200905161132.21437.IvDoorn@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ivo van Doorn writes: > On Saturday 16 May 2009, Jon Fairbairn wrote: >> does it work as an AP in Windows? >> If so, how does it get round the bug in the driver? > > Simply by indicating that every single frame passed to the driver has > been send out succesfully and thus completely ignoring the real status. Ugh. But Microsoft make the de-facto standards after all :-( -- for a view that's illuminating, if depressing and annoying to those of us who think there's a point to compatibility, watch the talk Butler Lampson gave for Roger Needham's 50+5 presentation (list of talks is at ) > I am awaiting a patch from Alexandre which will add that same behavior > to rt2x00. That would be great, thanks! -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk