Re: Implemeneting PCF for an access point

From: Chris Edwards (chris_at_edwards.mine.nu)
Date: 2002-04-03 06:40:36 UTC

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• Jim Thompson (jim_at_musenki.com) wrote:
  >
  > Chris Edwards writes:
  > > Hi,
  > >
  > > I'm part of a team which is hopefully developing an implementation of
  > > PCF for an access point, using linux drivers. So far we've been unable
  > > to confirm whether the prism chipset(s) support this,
  >
  > They appear to when using the terniary f/w.
  Does this mean that the pcf function is implimented by the firmware though? We're looking to controlling the polling from the host.

> > and obviously we have no documentation on how to do so.
>
> So why not get the Isil driver documentation?
I only just found where this was available (after signing an NDA etc). We're new to this, so we're still trying to understand everything at this stage, which isn't ideal.

> > I was wondering whether anyone had tried, and whether anyone could
> > confirm if it's possible or not.
>
> it looks possible to do in s/w

*snip*
> Any reason to not leverage the hostap driver?
This is what we're intending to do. There doesn't seem to be any provision made for PCF in these drivers though, and since we're new to it it'll take a while to work it all out, but we'll get there!

Thanks for your help
Chris

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