Re: AP (Master Mode) of wireless drivers

[Vladimir Koutny <vlado@work.ksp.sk>]

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>> 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..

Regards,
  Vladimir


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