Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One, AR242 5007Ad-hoc mode, anyone?
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.drivers.madwifi.user
Date: 2008-08-05 15:50:38 GMT (22 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours and 27 minutes ago)
Pavel, >-----Original Message----- >From: Pavel Roskin [mailto:proski <at> gnu.org] >Sent: dinsdag 5 augustus 2008 3:03 >To: Velt, R. (Ronald) in 't >Cc: William Gallafent; madwifi-users <at> lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] Acer Aspire One, AR242 5007Ad-hoc >mode, anyone? > >On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 18:07 +0200, Velt, R. (Ronald) in 't wrote: > >> IIRC, a while back there was mention on the #madwifi IRC of ad hoc >> mode being broken in the 0.10.5.6 HAL. I think this was reported by >> Ge0rG (Georg Lukas). As I don't have any AR5007 / AR242x devices >> myself, and therefore do not use the new HAL, I have no first-hand >> experience with this. > >You don't need new devices to reproduce the problem. The new >HAL supports older devices. > Good to know. I more or less expected that it would. However, let's say I was too lazy / too busy with other things to load madwifi with the new HAL on the embedded systems in my testbed (running as ad hoc mode bridges, btw), just to test what is essentially SEP. >I checked the ad-hoc mode quickly. Everything is fine without WEP. >With WEP, data goes correctly in one direction, but gets >corrupted in the other. The same problem exists in the 0.9.4 >branch. So it's not something specific to the new HAL. > >I tested the 0.10.5.6 HAL with AR5007 on one side and AR5006 >on another, and the data goes through in both directions without WEP. Thanks for taking the trouble to check this. That, too, is good to know. I was merely relaying what I had read here: http://madwifi.org/irclogs/%23madwifi.2008-07-17.log Some lines from that log: 2008-07-17T16:27:16 <Ge0rG> woot. adhoc is broken on ar5007 in the new-sam-hal-branch 2008-07-17T16:27:26 <Ge0rG> I can receive packets, but sending does not work . 2008-07-17T16:34:45 * Ge0rG badly needs some alternative HAL now :> . 2008-07-17T16:37:56 <Ge0rG> ok, xmit buffers are not sent out in adhoc mode. . 2008-07-17T16:38:00 <Ge0rG> at least not always. . 2008-07-17T23:56:13 <Ge0rG> anerion: it worked from time to time, but not always :> It was not my intention to spread hearsay. Apologies if I did. Regards, Ronald in 't Velt > >-- >Regards, >Pavel Roskin > This e-mail and its contents are subject to the DISCLAIMER at http://www.tno.nl/disclaimer/email.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/