Topics discussed in October 2011
About thirty subjects came up during the month. The two largest were a long connection-problem thread and a multi-part proposal for radar-pattern detection. The topics, in rough order of appearance:
- Connection problems with a home router combination (the longest thread)
- A multi-part proposal for radar-pattern detection (DFS): statistics, debug flag, build option, pulse detection and hardware pulse reporting
- Failing to associate with one particular access point
- Reading beacon information from other access points
- Removing a redundant error-handling block
- Sending raw frames from kernel code
- Packet loss while scanning on a three-stream adapter
- A new adapter reporting an unexpected product id
- Stabilising a PCI adapter on an ARM board
- Looking for register documentation for an older chip
- Supporting multiple data streams
- Enabling 40 MHz channels and short guard interval
- Obscure freezes and hangs on one adapter (a long thread)
- Truncated frames with a laptop client
- Persistent 5 percent packet loss and the noise-immunity workaround
- A cast fix in the hardware layer
- A gaming-oriented adapter
- Segmentation fault after compiling the driver
- Fixed rate index and transmit chain mask
- Performance problems on a two-stream adapter
- Cross-compiling problems with the packet-capture library
- Using the Linux Wi-Fi stack on a mobile operating system
- Kernel warning while the supplicant scans
- Private ioctl tools and the driver
- Interrupt storm after suspend and resume
- Per-frame transmit and receive timing
- Compatibility with a popular phone maker's devices on WPA
- Distance measurement and positioning with a three-stream chip
- Large aggregate frame support
- Connection problems with an older mini-PCI card