Subject: Re: zd1211 3.0.0.56 "vendor driver" - please help port to zd1211rw
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor?= Stefanik <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 21:27 +0200, G=C3=A1bor Stefanik wrote:

> AFAIK the developers will never accept any AP mode for zd1211 devices,
> as it has no multicast buffering feature in the hardware. (The vendor
> driver, as well as the Windows driver implements AP mode with a spec
> violation to get around the lack of a multicast buffer.)
> CCing Johannes, he was the one who initially said that.

Pretty much exactly it.

johannes

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