On 05/18/2012 09:42 PM, Dan Williams wrote: > 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. >> >> . >> >> > Thanks Dan. # iw list | sed -n '/Supported interface modes/,/AP/p' Supported interface modes: * IBSS * managed * AP Looks like I'm good as far as my card and driver. Just hoping for a backport to F16 since I have one of those nvidia video cards that couldn't run F17. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
