madwifi channel

Jouni Malinen j
Sun Mar 22 06:47:45 PDT 2009


On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:14:13PM +0300, sergio wrote:

> But why hostapd's channel setting depends on driver?

It depends on what has been seen important to configure by whoever
writes a driver wrapper for hostapd. In case of madwifi, I would assume
most people are controlling the channel and many other 802.11 values
directly with the driver while with mac80211-based drivers these are set
through hostapd.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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