From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Erwin Van de Velde <erwin.vandevelde@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>,
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Master mode support in iwlagn?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:32:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338467530.9102.4.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FC76389.70600@broadcom.com>
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 14:26 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 02:16 PM, Erwin Van de Velde wrote:
> > I have one ethernet connection and want to share that connection over
> > wireless, preferably in AP mode although I guess ad hoc mode is possible too.
> > Just not sure if NetworkManager supports that.
>
> NetworkManager does support ad-hoc, but your hardware need to support
> beacon transmission for that as well. You could consider buying an AP.
> They are not that expensive ;-)
iwlwifi does support IBSS for all devices, just not AP mode.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-31 12:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 12:09 Master mode support in iwlagn? Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-30 12:31 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-30 15:02 ` Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-30 22:32 ` Dan Williams
2012-05-31 7:40 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-31 9:03 ` Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-31 9:09 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-31 9:20 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-05-31 9:57 ` Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-31 12:01 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-05-31 12:16 ` Erwin Van de Velde
2012-05-31 12:26 ` Arend van Spriel
2012-05-31 12:32 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2012-05-31 14:23 ` Dan Williams
2012-05-31 16:52 ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-05-31 17:00 ` Johannes Berg
2012-05-31 20:00 ` Marcel Holtmann
2012-05-31 18:22 ` Erwin Van de Velde
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