Infdrop event message

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Wed Jul 30 18:48:45 PDT 2003


On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 08:37:52AM +0100, Luisa Caeiro wrote:

> So, what I understand is that the driver sends periodically information
> frames to the host system and because the host system can't process quickly
> all the information it drops some. Is that true?

It is the wlan card that is sending the information frames, but
otherwise that is true.

> The firmware STA I'm using is version 1.4.9. Do you think than I could
> moving to use 32-bit tallies instead of the default 16-bit ones?

I have never tested 32-bit tallies, but yes, they should work with STA
f/w 1.4.9. I have a to-do item of changing the driver to use 32-bit
tallies automatically if the STA f/w supports them.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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