iwn and hostap

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Sun Jun 26 22:54:03 UTC 2011


Just make sure you run -HEAD.


Adrian

On 27 June 2011 06:22, cykotix <cyko at cykotix.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 26 June 2011 23:26, Patrick Lahni <list at cykotix.com> wrote:
>> > Adhoc is supported.  According to iwn(4):
>> >
>> > iwn supports station, adhoc, and monitor mode operation.
>> >
>> > I wasn't sure if that means, just for now?  Or is hostap not planned for
>> > these cards supported by iwn?
>>
>> The card runs closed-source firmware which we can't get to the insides
>> of. I don't know the exact details, but there may be some features
>> which we can't really get to in order to support proper hostap modes.
>>
>>
>> adrian
>
>
> Makes sense.  Hopefully I'll have better luck with a AR9280 instead.  Thanks
> for the input.
>
> Patrick
>


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