Return-path: Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]:55619 "EHLO c60.cesmail.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751287AbYKYRQ4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:16:56 -0500 Subject: Re: AP (Master Mode) of wireless drivers From: Pavel Roskin To: Mark Ryden Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:16:54 -0500 Message-Id: <1227633414.15224.6.camel@dv> (sfid-20081125_181659_598212_24A3B86B) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 17:35 +0200, Mark Ryden wrote: > Hello, > > According to the linux wireless wiki, only four Linux drivers support > AP (Master Mode) ; these > are b43/b43legacy (Broadcom chips), Intel ipw2200, and > libertas_tf and p54 (Intersil chips). > see: > http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers > > My question is: is this information updated ? If you check the page history, you'll see that the page is being updated regularly. That doesn't mean that it's 100% correct. > 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). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin