WDS progress

[Freddie Cash]

On Mon, April 3, 2006 9:16 am, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Freddie Cash wrote:
>> On Sat, April 1, 2006 10:54 pm, P C wrote:
>>> Does anyone know when WDS ("standard" as defined by the wi-fi
>>> alliance or senao/engenius) will be available in FreeBSD?
>>> Specifically for Atheros chipset cards.

>> Search the -current and -stable mailing lists for posts by Sam
>> Leffler regarding the state of the 802.11 wireless stack and the
>> ath(4) driver.  I remember a long post by him early in the new year
>> that describes all the new features of the latest ath_hal(4), along
>> with plans for the wireless stack this year.  In one of those
>> messages, he goes over WDS and WMM extensions.  I don't recall the
>> specifics, though.

> WDS and WMM are unrelated.  WMM has been in CVS for >1 year.  WDS is
> waiting on import of the multi-bss vap support.  No clue when that'll
> happen (if ever) as it requires help converting all the wireless
> drivers to a new model.

> Some folks have expressed interest in getting WDS support in
> separately from vap's but I've not heard anything recently.

Thanks for the clarification.

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Freddie Cash
fcash at ocis.net