On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 18:21 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > In looking back through some of the meeting minutes I saw that RealHotspot has been approved for Fedora 18. > > =================================== > #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2012-03-19) > =================================== > > > Meeting started by limburgher at 18:00:23 UTC. The full logs are > available at > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-03-19/fesco.2012-03-19-18.00.log.html > . > > > > Meeting summary > --------------- > ... > > * #823 F18 Feature: Network Manager hotspots - > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RealHotspot (limburgher, > 18:08:10) > * AGREED: F18 Network Manager hotspots is passed (+8,-:0,0:0) > (limburgher, 18:10:51) > ... > > > > What are the chances of having RealHotspot backported for F17 and F16 and available as an update? For F17 at least, quite good if your network card supports it. At the moment, that means Intel 6xxx and later, ath5k, ath9k, and perhaps a few others. Try this: iw phy and if under "Supported interface modes:" you see "AP", then your card and driver are capable of real AP mode. Dan > None of my devices will connect using adhoc connection in my Fedora 16 installation and having a true AP hotspot would > certainly improve things tremendously. > > . > > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
