Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41349 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754741AbZELIQY (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 May 2009 04:16:24 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1M3nA0-0002iM-77 for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 May 2009 08:16:24 +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 ; Tue, 12 May 2009 08:16:24 +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 ; Tue, 12 May 2009 08:16:24 +0000 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org From: Jon Fairbairn Subject: Re: rt73usb Access point status Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:16:12 +0100 Message-ID: References: <557754.25367.qm@web51403.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20090511035515.83c21b0c.cjsthompson@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "Christoph .J Thompson" writes: > On Sat, 2 May 2009 11:34:31 +0100 > Luis Correia wrote: >> No, the bug is not in hostapd. >>=20 >> As Johannes says, the bug is in the driver. >> Apparently, the driver is unable to get the ACK from the hardware an= d >> thus unable to report that ACK back to hostapd. >>=20 >> So the hostapd hack works, as long as there are enough room for >> retransmit supposely lost frames. >>=20 >> 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. Is there any prospec of persuading Ralink either to release a mended version of the firmware or to free the old version? What is it that Alexandre Becholey is doing, though? It looked promising to me. >> 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 und= er >> Linux, got with the Atheros b/g hardware". >> But that was in the madwifi days, I haven't tested it with the curre= nt >> mac80211 based driver. > > But if he can't use anything else than a USB dongle than > Atheros is useless. Quite. No free PCI slots, for example. > 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. I think my solution to that would involve HSS tools, but your point is a good one. --=20 J=C3=B3n Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam= =2Eac.uk -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html