After some debuging we were hitting the following bugs so far...
* Due to huge channel list hostapd couldn't get infos from the driver
and couldn't set the channel. If we manualy set the channel after
hostapd starts (by setting channel to 0 -auto), beacons are sent
but they wont show up on scan because they are malformed (they have
channel = 0 because hostapd doesn't update the channel info -this is
probably a hostapd bug so i'm CCing Jouni) and they get dropped. Bob
fixed this by only allowing standard channels to be registered so
now hostapd works as expected.
* Docs (and HAL source) say that we must write 0 on timer0 when
operating on AP mode to start TSF increment but this seems to
mess with DBA in many cases and beacon queue never gets started.
We fixed that on the previous patch.
We have some more things to deal with...
* For some reason (hw bug or something else) after restarting hostapd
a few times, beacon inteval seems to change from 100ms to a sec
(we get one beacon per sec).
* We need to set sleep timers on STA mode and enable power saving +
support PCF.
...but i think it's time we enable AP support "officialy" so that
we can get more feedback from users. I ran ath5k with the mentioned
patches + hostapd 0.6.8 and AP mode worked fine (it had some less
throughput on my tests than IBSS but it worked).
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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