atheros adhoc mode

[Doug Ambrisko]

David Cornejo writes:
| We're evaluating the Soekris 4801 and a 5212 based mini-PCI radio - It 
| works well enough in infrastructure mode, but I'm having problems with adhoc.
| 
| When the radio is operating in adhoc mode, I see multicast traffic, but no 
| unicast traffic.  However, if I run tcpdump on the ath interface I get 
| sporadic traffic.
| 
| It's possible I'm still misconfigured, but the fact that putting the 
| interface into promiscuous mode changes the behavior of the interface kinda 
| points elsewhere.  We have this application running fine on 4521s with both 
| an & wi radios.
| 
| Is this a known problem?

Heh, Dave how's it going?  If by chance you are doing ad-hoc to an 
Aironet card I feel your pain.  I have to go into promiscious mode
to get the Atheros card to talk to my Aironet ad-hoc network.  Even
then it drops lots of packets.  I'm not doing multicast.

I haven't done any debugging.  My Aironet cards work just fine it 
the same ad-hoc network.

This is with a relatively recent -current.  A week old or so.

Doug A.