On Sex, 2012-05-18 at 21:49 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > 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. This project is awesome, I need it to connect my android !, and I will try follow it. I don't know what is need but we always can get all packages from 18 and compile in 16. About nvidia , if you are talking about property driver , rpmfusion just built new drivers , about 6 hours ago. Thanks, -- Sérgio M. B. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
