PCF mode in HostAP

[Pavel Roskin]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 03:18:11PM +0300, El_khayat DOUKKALI wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for an implementation of the PCF MAC layer access method.
> > Is HostAP supporting PCF access method or not ? Are you considering
> > implementation of PCF in HostAP ? 
> 
> As far as I know, current Intersil firmware does not provide support for
> PCF and host driver cannot do much about that..

There is Intersil firmware with PCF support, and linux-wlan-ng supports it 
if the necessary RIDs are present.  Look for "pcf settings ignored" in 
prism2mgmt.c.

It should be possible to program the MAC from userspace to use PCF.  
However, HostAP doesn't seem to provide the interface for that.  It should
be possible to set and read every byte in every RID.  "iwpriv
set_rid_word" is insufficient because it's write only and affects only two
first bytes,

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin