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Subject: Re: CFT: major wireless changes
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Sam Leffler wrote:
> This patch against HEAD imports the work that's been sitting in the
> sam_wifi p4 branch:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~sam/sam_wifi-20070601.patch.gz
>
> To apply it do something like
>
> cd /usr/src
> gzcat sam_wifi-20070601.patch.gz | patch -p4
>
> Expect one reject in sys/net80211/ieee80211_input.c.rej; it can be
> ignored.
>
> These changes do the following:
>
> o significantly change net80211 data structures in ways required by
> the multi-bss/vap support and for 802.11n
> o overhaul scanning to support background scanning and roaming
> o add basic 802.11n support (drivers coming separately)
I assume that this patch also does not help 802.11n card to work with
a/b/g (without n support)? Or did I make a mistake applying the patch?

Arne