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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, manisha s wrote:
I have read that there are six ports to support wireless distribution
system. I am not very sure what these ports are and for what purpose
they are ? I am also confused how to use these ports in driver itself?
You didn't provide the link where you read it. As far as I know, port 0
is used for most operations, port 7 is used for packets received in
monitor mode and ports 1-6 are used for WDS, but only by tertiary
firmware. To use them, you need a driver that supports Intersil tertiary
firmware, and the only such driver is linux-wlan-ng. And even then, I
don't thing linux-wlan-ng supports WDS because I don't see code to set the
MAC port for transmission.
Suppose any firmaware doesnot support such ports then how one can
implement these ports in driver and what are the advantages of doing so?
I think you are taking a wrong approach. Instead of pursuing real goals
(like WDS support), you are asking how to do something that cannot be done
by definition (emulation of WDS ports in software).
For your information, HostAP driver supports WDS without "implementing"
WDS ports. Orinoco driver doesn't support WDS and master mode at all.
I have searched a lot on this topic (ports) but not got any
clarifiacations...
Tertiary firmware is not documented well.
If you really need WDS ports, you probably should continue this discussion
in linux-wlan-devel-cunTk1MwBs+rl3Moja82AxTTglE0JFCO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx At least linux-wlan-ng has some
support for tertiary firmware.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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