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| author | Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com> | 2012-02-08 12:04:41 -0800 |
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| committer | Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com> | 2012-02-17 10:58:39 -0800 |
| commit | 758f555f5e69bb44fc85edb90b3d15e68a29bc0c (patch) | |
| tree | 2c1028372ffeec02cbd2a2341ec4b02461d6d6b9 /drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi | |
| parent | dd63b84eb44ba4e34daa83cf535a8bb79bc7f2e2 (diff) | |
iwlwifi: enable receiving beacons when not associated
If the firmware implements beacon filtering,
beacons are filtered when not associated. This causes
association failures on channels marked passive.
Enabling this flag indicates to the firmware to allow
the beacons to pass through when not associated only.
Signed-off-by: Meenakshi Venkataraman <meenakshi.venkataraman@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c index 8ca9570ec36..35dd7e364b4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c @@ -900,6 +900,22 @@ void iwlagn_bss_info_changed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, } } + /* + * If the ucode decides to do beacon filtering before + * association, it will lose beacons that are needed + * before sending frames out on passive channels. This + * causes association failures on those channels. Enable + * receiving beacons in such cases. + */ + + if (vif->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) { + if (!bss_conf->assoc) + ctx->staging.filter_flags |= RXON_FILTER_BCON_AWARE_MSK; + else + ctx->staging.filter_flags &= + ~RXON_FILTER_BCON_AWARE_MSK; + } + if (force || memcmp(&ctx->staging, &ctx->active, sizeof(ctx->staging))) iwlagn_commit_rxon(priv, ctx); |