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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


  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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