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Subject: Re: Master mode support in iwlagn?
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: Erwin Van de Velde <erwin.vandevelde@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>,
	Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 14:32:10 +0200
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On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 14:26 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 05/31/2012 02:16 PM, Erwin Van de Velde wrote:
> > I have one ethernet connection and want to share that connection over 
> > wireless, preferably in AP mode although I guess ad hoc mode is possible too. 
> > Just not sure if NetworkManager supports that.
> 
> NetworkManager does support ad-hoc, but your hardware need to support
> beacon transmission for that as well. You could consider buying an AP.
> They are not that expensive ;-)

iwlwifi does support IBSS for all devices, just not AP mode.

johannes