2014-06-06 15:19:44

by Ming Lin

Subject: wifi p2p question

Hi Johannes,

I'm going to try wifi p2p on 2 laptops with latest kernel and wpa_supplicant.

Does wfi p2p only need software(driver/wpa_supplicant) support?
Or does it need some specific wifi hardware/firmware/microcode support?

>From wiki http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/p2p/howto:
(OR another device that has a mac80211 driver, but these are known to
work, iwlwifi does notcurrently work with any released microcode)

It looks like, in theory, all wifi hardware with a mac80211 driver should work.
Is my understanding correct?

Thanks,
Ming

2014-06-09 23:39:00

by Ming Lin

Subject: Re: wifi p2p question

Hi Johannes,

Could you help on this question?

Thanks,
Ming

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Lin Ming <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Johannes,
>
> I'm going to try wifi p2p on 2 laptops with latest kernel and wpa_supplicant.
>
> Does wfi p2p only need software(driver/wpa_supplicant) support?
> Or does it need some specific wifi hardware/firmware/microcode support?
>
> From wiki http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/p2p/howto:
> (OR another device that has a mac80211 driver, but these are known to
> work, iwlwifi does notcurrently work with any released microcode)
>
> It looks like, in theory, all wifi hardware with a mac80211 driver should work.
> Is my understanding correct?
>
> Thanks,
> Ming