From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 06:11:04 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 136F6E0C for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:11:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhugo@meraka.csir.co.za) Received: from marge.meraka.csir.co.za (marge.meraka.csir.co.za [146.64.28.1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2ED98FC0C for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jeep.localnet (unknown [IPv6:2001:4200:7000:3:223:aeff:fea7:a3c2]) by marge.meraka.csir.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id B76ACD0CC0C; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:10:59 +0200 (SAST) From: Johann Hugo To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/172955: [ath] 11n does not work in adhoc mode Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:10:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/9.0-RELEASE-p3; KDE/4.7.3; amd64; ; ) References: <201210222000.q9MK01pm089451@freefall.freebsd.org> <50870C2C.1030708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <50870C2C.1030708@gmail.com> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201210240810.58126.jhugo@meraka.csir.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:11:04 -0000 On Tuesday 23 October 2012 23:29:16 Chuck Burns wrote: > On 10/23/2012 2:23 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > I'd really appreciate someone stepping in here. I'm trying to finish > > off the power save queue handling changes and then move to finishing > > correcting the ps-poll support. Then I have the whole TX and RX data > > and control path to jiggle around to make things (more) predictable > > and better behaved. I really don't want to stray from this. :-) > > > > Do I have to promise free hardware and t-shirts? :-) > > I could be mistaken, but I was under the impression that adhoc only > supported B or G speeds, and that if you wanted N speeds, you have to > use STA rather than ADHOC. > > I've heard this discussion outside of relation to FreeBSD, so I know > it's a well-discussed issue. I also think I remember reading something > about certain chipsets supporting 11n in ADHOC mode, but only when > connecting to other chipsets. I think it was MAYBE an atheros chipset, > but I don't really remember -exactly- what I read, or where it was... > > Here is a linux ath9k forum post regarding it: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ath9k.devel/2660 Seems to > indicate that 11n in ADHOC isn't supported there either.. Sooo.... Saw this yesterday on another mailing list. ----------- ad-hoc mode is supported in 802.11n since at least a year with the ath9k driver. It might be broken in a specific version of Openwrt trunk, though. ----------- Johann