Re: ACK for a DATA frame

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 15:45 +0000, Siva Sivavakeesar wrote:
> For this purpose I wish to use the function ieee80211_rx() appearing
> in ieee80211_rx.c file. Within this function, I am trying to see
> whether I have received any frame of IEEE80211_STYPE_ACK type with the
> following if-clause. Given that the condition is never satified, the
> program does not get into and never executed the statments appearing
> within the if clause.
> 
>    if (WLAN_FC_GET_STYPE == IEEE80211_STYPE_ACK) {
> 
>     // perform some calculations
>   }

You won't get the ACK packets from driver since the firmware already
handles it and filtered it out.

Thanks,
-yi

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