From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Kurz Subject: Re: 802.11: Managed- and AdHoc-mode at the same time Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:21:03 +0200 Message-ID: <200809041321.03307.vladislav.kurz@webstep.net> References: <200809041235.38752.volker@openbios.org> <48BFC341.7060803@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <48BFC341.7060803@trash.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 04 of September 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Volker Poplawski wrote: > > Hi all, > > this is probably the wrong list to ask, but anyway > > > > Is it possible to run a wireless interface in both managed and adhoc mode > > at the same time? > > > > I.e. be connected to a access-point and at same time to one or more hosts > > in adhoc mode. > > > > (is it technical possible at all?? Does linux support it?) > > I think its possible to add virtual interfaces and have them > configured to different modes using iw [1], but I'm not sure. > Someone on linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org can probably tell > you more. > > [1] http://git.sipsolutions.net/iw.git It depends on wireless driver. IIRC madwifi (atheros chipset) can do that, but I'm not so sure about others. Ask your wifi driver developers and users. -- Regards Vladislav Kurz