Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 16:16:23 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting HT capabilities in net80211 Message-ID: <4B92F057.9080508@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <2d3b7e441003042348h2150de3eub5a7af5248b5e947@mail.gmail.com> References: <2d3b7e441003042348h2150de3eub5a7af5248b5e947@mail.gmail.com>
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Alexander Egorenkov wrote: > Currently there is no possibility to set some HT capabilities in e.g. an > association request frame. > The function ieee80211_add_htcap_body in ieee80211_ht.c simply sets some HT > capabilities to zero. > For example, there is no way to set HT extended capabilities which i need > for my 802.11n device driver. > I could of course patch the function on my system and recompile the kernel > but it would be really nice > to have official support of extended HT capabilities (and all other HT caps) > in net80211. The header file > ieee80211.h defines the necessary HT capability constants but they are not > used in net80211 to > set extended HT capabilities in association request frames. Can you be more specific? The current code dynamically sets those capabilities that can be changed and the others are fixed according to the capabilities of the hw/driver. Of course patches are always welcome; what's there reflects what was needed for the projects I worked on. Sam
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