Question of HostAP

Jouni Malinen jkmaline
Fri Jan 24 19:52:42 PST 2003


On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:30:50AM +0800, Paul Tan wrote:

> I would like to know if the HostAP mode allows user-space program on the station or AP to add new 802.11 Information Element into the Beacon or Assoc frames.

You can do that for association reply (see handle_assoc() function),
but Prism2 station firmware takes care of beacon generation within the
wlan card and beacons cannot thus be changed in this way.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA




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