Forgive the somewhat complicated and backwards-dated quoting, below. I'm trying hard to preserve provenance. I lead with permission to bring this conversation back on-list, then I get to the original query. On 12/10/2016 03:10 PM, Adam Monsen wrote: > Do you mind if we discuss on-list? I'm fine either way, just checking On 12/11/2016 01:14 AM, Siarhei Siniak wrote: > As you like. On 12/10/2016 02:31 PM, Siarhei Siniak wrote: > Hi. > > I have not found any discussion board up there on that site. I first filed a backport request, here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/trusty-backports/+bug/1648910 . I don't know of any other discussion of folks asking for a backport of wpa/hostapd 2.4+ to Ubuntu 14.04. > Why do you think it's that easy to backport hostap? I don't know if this is easy or not. > I think it is not an issue of 50$. Because it's not money. I get that, I've been involved in FLOSS communities for 15+ years. The point of the bounty is to raise awareness but also to help a dev recoup some of the cost of working on this since time is never free. Hopefully an "ad" to get paid to write/maintain FLOSS is a welcome one. > I'd like to look into the issue, but I have no time. I get that too! No worries. If this backport makes sense (and that's surely the first thing to determine), maybe someone else will make the time. > Why don't you solve the issue yourself? There's a lot I'd like to do myself. :-) I can do it, but it would take me much longer than someone else with more experience in this codebase and more wifi/wpa/hostapd domain knowledge. > And what's the point to make it run on 14.04? That's just a selfish need. I want the fixes and features in the newer versions of hostapd, and the device I'm maintaining runs Ubuntu 14.04. > I have a smartphone, which has the same old version of > this soft. It is running with 4.1 Android. And it works pretty fine. > > Tell me any worth of it functionality, that 2.0 lacks? Great question! Ubuntu comes with hostapd 2.1. I'm unable to create a 5Ghz access point even after trying many different configurations. So, my initial need is for 5Ghz to work. > Siarhei In case it helps, here's the hardware I'm working with lately. snippet of lspci -v output: 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7265 (rev 59) Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 49 Memory at aa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [40] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-21-5c-ff-ff-d3-b3-37 Capabilities: [14c] Latency Tolerance Reporting Capabilities: [154] L1 PM Substates Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn Mode:Master Tx-Power=22 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Cheers, -Adam ~ http://adammonsen.com ~
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