Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:12:52 -0500
From: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com>
To: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
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	Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@gmail.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas
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On 22:14 Mon 01 Feb     , Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 2 - Allow a wireless card to associate to several APs at once (if they
> share the frequency). 
> Implement this at least for ath5/9k. Madwifi had that feature. Maybe
> ath9k has. If it has that feature, test it.

I haven't actually tried this particular case, but this is ostensibly
already supported by mac80211: iw allows you to create several wireless
interfaces that share a phy, which can then be configured into different
modes (I've used station + monitor successfully in the past).

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Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)