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From: Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Mark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AP (Master Mode) of wireless drivers
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:34:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <492D0A26.9090801@work.ksp.sk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227633414.15224.6.camel@dv>

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>> 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).

I've tested AP mode on iwl4965 about 2 weeks ago and a very quick test did
work (no encryption, just connected a win notebook to it and did some
browsing). Just be sure to fetch correct (=recent) versions of hostapd and
libnl..

Regards,
  Vladimir


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-26  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25 15:35 AP (Master Mode) of wireless drivers Mark Ryden
2008-11-25 17:16 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-11-26  8:34   ` Vladimir Koutny [this message]
2008-11-26 10:03     ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-26 13:47       ` Mark Ryden
2008-11-26 13:58         ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-26 14:02           ` Mark Ryden

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