Re: AP (Master Mode) of wireless drivers

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 17:35 +0200, Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> According to the linux wireless wiki, only four Linux drivers support
> AP (Master Mode) ; these
> are  b43/b43legacy (Broadcom chips), Intel ipw2200, and
> libertas_tf and p54 (Intersil chips).
> see:
> http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers
> 
> My question is: is this information updated ?

If you check the page history, you'll see that the page is being updated
regularly.  That doesn't mean that it's 100% correct.

> More specifically, I am particularly interested to know whether Intel
> iwl3945 and Intel iwl4965 support AP (Master Mode), and in case they
> do not (as I am afraid is the situation)
> - is there any intention to add AP (masted mode) support to these drivers
> in the near future ?

The driver announces AP mode support (look for NL80211_IFTYPE_AP and
hw->wiphy->interface_modes in iwl-core.c and iwl3945-base.c), so it
might work, or at least the intention is to make it work.  By the way,
rt2x00 announces AP mode support too (in some conditions).

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin