Re: AP (Master Mode) of wireless drivers

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 09:34 +0100, Vladimir Koutny wrote:
> >> 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..

I don't think it'll do mcast buffering correctly.

johannes

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