On 05/18/2012 09:42 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 18:21 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> In looking back through some of the meeting minutes I saw that RealHotspot
>> has been approved for Fedora 18.
>>
>> ===================================
>> #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2012-03-19)
>> ===================================
>>
>>
>> Meeting started by limburgher at 18:00:23 UTC. The full logs are
>> available at
>>
>> http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-03-19/fesco.2012-03-19-18.00.log.html
>> .
>>
>>
>>
>> Meeting summary
>> ---------------
>> ...
>>
>> * #823 F18 Feature: Network Manager hotspots -
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RealHotspot (limburgher,
>> 18:08:10)
>> * AGREED: F18 Network Manager hotspots is passed (+8,-:0,0:0)
>> (limburgher, 18:10:51)
>> ...
>>
>>
>>
>> What are the chances of having RealHotspot backported for F17 and F16 and
>> available as an update?
> For F17 at least, quite good if your network card supports it. At the
> moment, that means Intel 6xxx and later, ath5k, ath9k, and perhaps a few
> others. Try this:
>
> iw phy
>
> and if under "Supported interface modes:" you see "AP", then your card
> and driver are capable of real AP mode.
>
> Dan
>
>> None of my devices will connect using adhoc connection in my Fedora 16
>> installation and having a true AP hotspot would
>> certainly improve things tremendously.
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>
Thanks Dan.
# iw list | sed -n '/Supported interface modes/,/AP/p'
Supported interface modes:
* IBSS
* managed
* AP
Looks like I'm good as far as my card and driver.
Just hoping for a backport to F16 since I have one of those nvidia video cards
that couldn't run F17.
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