drivers supporting AP mode

drivers supporting AP mode

[Chuck Tuffli]

Hi -

I'm interested in working on the AP functionality in the mac80211
stack and was looking for hardware suggestions. There is a list of
drivers on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers, but is it up to
date or are there additional drivers that now support AP
functionality? Also, what are my best choices for devices in a PCMCIA
or mini PCI form factor? TIA!

---chuck

Re: drivers supporting AP mode

[Johannes Berg]

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Hi,

> I'm interested in working on the AP functionality in the mac80211
> stack

Welcome. Feel free to help out hacking :)

>  and was looking for hardware suggestions. There is a list of
> drivers on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers, but is it up to
> date or are there additional drivers that now support AP
> functionality?

It's up to date but... mac80211 doesn't really support hostapd right
now.

johannes

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Re: drivers supporting AP mode

[Chuck Tuffli]

On Dec 21, 2007 4:12 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
...
> >  and was looking for hardware suggestions. There is a list of
> > drivers on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers, but is it up to
> > date or are there additional drivers that now support AP
> > functionality?
>
> It's up to date but... mac80211 doesn't really support hostapd right
> now.

Ok, without hostapd I should still be able to setup an unencrypted AP, right?

With regard to driver choices, it looks like the b43 is the way to go
if I wanted to setup something that currently works.

---chuck

Re: drivers supporting AP mode

[Johannes Berg]

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> Ok, without hostapd I should still be able to setup an unencrypted AP, right?

No. You need hostapd anyway to manage the stations etc., we're not going
to put that into the kernel. See my [FYI] mails on the topic.

> With regard to driver choices, it looks like the b43 is the way to go
> if I wanted to setup something that currently works.

Certainly it'll be the first one to work since I'm actively working on
that.

johannes

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Re: drivers supporting AP mode

[Tomas Winkler]

> > It's up to date but... mac80211 doesn't really support hostapd right
> > now.
>
> Ok, without hostapd I should still be able to setup an unencrypted AP, right?
>
> With regard to driver choices, it looks like the b43 is the way to go
> if I wanted to setup something that currently works.
>

We have older version of mac80211 and  hostapd over (wext) running in
AP mode with iwl4965.
We will try to rebase it over current versions, with posting patches
very soon. If you want to help  reviewing, testing, anything
you are more then welcome.
Thanks
Tomas

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