linux-kernel - Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

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Message-ID: <20100201221252.GA30758@emergent.ellipticsemi.com>
Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:12:52 -0500
From:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
To:	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...il.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Witold Sowa <witold.sowa@...il.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter@...il.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lsb-discuss@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Linux wireless GSoC 2010 project ideas

On 22:14 Mon 01 Feb     , Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 2 - Allow a wireless card to associate to several APs at once (if they
> share the frequency). 
> Implement this at least for ath5/9k. Madwifi had that feature. Maybe
> ath9k has. If it has that feature, test it.

I haven't actually tried this particular case, but this is ostensibly
already supported by mac80211: iw allows you to create several wireless
interfaces that share a phy, which can then be configured into different
modes (I've used station + monitor successfully in the past).

-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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