From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Chan Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:21:13 +0800 Subject: [ath9k-devel] Progress on Ath9k HT support on Adhoc mode In-Reply-To: <1293605549.30342.8.camel@jm-desktop> References: <4CF88076.6080105@gmail.com> <201012091336.19873.simon_alex@web.de> <5C6A1397A52B4FC1A5E85604FEA41D32@PatrickAsus> <14C05393AD794FD0A06B6BB332CC46AF@PatrickAsus> <1293605549.30342.8.camel@jm-desktop> Message-ID: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Hi Jouni and Mohammed, Thanks very much for the quick reply. As I am implementing a project that requires a 802.11N mesh network at low (or zero actually, for a poor area deployment) budget. May I ask what is the progress in that end (mesh over 11N)? Or if I want to jump in, which part of the code should I begin with (of course I really doubt I could do much all by myself, but I will try to probably help out)? Thanks very much again in advance. Regards, Robert -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jouni Malinen" Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 2:52 PM To: "Mohammed Shafi" Cc: "Robert Chan" ; Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] Progress on Ath9k HT support on Adhoc mode > On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 22:32 -0800, Mohammed Shafi wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Robert Chan >> wrote: >> > So should I assume that the details here are "too updated" or are the >> > modes >> > above are only independently supported (but not able to work together >> > such >> > as IBSS + N + mesh)? > > The modes in that table should be considered independent and support for > 802.11n in the table should really be read as at least one of the modes > supporting it, not all modes supporting it. So no, that does not mean > that either IBSS or mesh would support 802.11n (AP and station modes > do). > >> I think 'mesh mode' also handled in mac80211 , if mesh mode is >> supported with 11n then ibss(which is a sub-set ?) should have 11n >> support. > > Mesh and IBSS are independent modes and both will need to be > independently addressed for 802.11n support. In addition, both of them > have protocol limitations on which 802.11n HT features can be supported. > Finally, HT support for either mode is not yet complete in mac80211 and > as such, cannot be complete with ath9k either. > > - Jouni > > >