Return-path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:35534 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752840AbaIIQuS (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:50:18 -0400 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway2.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2865210B8 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2014 12:50:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1410281416.2770593.165489213.019D33E6@webmail.messagingengine.com> (sfid-20140909_185022_527895_B5718C19) From: Thomas Pedersen To: "John W. Linville" , Arend van Spriel Cc: chandrika parimoo , brcm80211-dev-list@broadcom.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Subject: Re: Mesh Support in brcmsmac Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:50:16 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20140909132623.GD29412@tuxdriver.com> References: <540ED666.9070101@broadcom.com> <20140909132623.GD29412@tuxdriver.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 9, 2014, at 06:26 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 12:28:54PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > > + linux-wireless > > > > On 09/09/14 12:22, chandrika parimoo wrote: > > >Hello, > > > > > >I have broadcom bcm4313 card and am using brcmsmac driver which does not > > >have mesh support currently. > > >I wanted to know if there is a workaround for it? > > > > No workaround. I am not familiar with wireless mesh networking. I suppose > > there are people on the linux-wireless mailing list who know what is needed > > from a mac80211 driver (like brcmsmac) to enable mesh networking. > > The main things is the beacons, no? Yeah mainly beacons, but also 4addr frames and FIF_OTHER_BSS filter. -- thomas