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Subject: Re: wifi p2p question
From: Lin Ming <minggr@gmail.com>
To: johannes.berg@intel.com
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Hi Johannes,

Could you help on this question?

Thanks,
Ming

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Lin Ming <minggr@gmail.com> 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