From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
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>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: Master mode support in iwlagn?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 09:23:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338474236.2242.1.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (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 ;-)
The problem with Ad-Hoc as "hotspot" is that many devices like Android
phones simply ignore adhoc networks due to security issues (as stupid as
that may be, since anyone can set up an AP-mode network too). Which is
why real AP mode is nice, but clearly not all wifi hardware is going to
support it.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-31 14:26 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
2012-05-31 14:23 ` Dan Williams [this message]
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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