On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

Hi!

I'm Adrian. I'm a wifi hacker. I worked at Qualcomm Atheros for 18
months on various open and closed source wifi things. I'm also the
FreeBSD wireless developer.

My main focus is FreeBSD but I know a bunch of stuff about openwrt and
the Linux wireless stack and Atheros drivers.

Right now I'm working on FreeBSD support for the latest Atheros chips
and SoCs (the AR933x and AR934x stuff), as well as finishing off the
11n support for TDMA and 802.11s mesh.

I recently discovered that not all 802.11g or 802.11n chipsets support more than 802.11b when used in ad-hoc mode (in linux). How much of this is based on the chip and how much is based on the drivers lacking support? How would I go about checking if a specific chip has support for stuff like 802.11n in ad-hoc mode, and other stuff like TDMA and 802.11s support (for both linux and freebsd)?

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Marc