On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 15:41 +0000, Nerijus Baliūnas wrote: > Dan Williams <dcbw@...> writes: > > > > Just FYI - "access point" mode of the NM applet works (in Gnome). But it > > > would still be nice to have hostapd working. > > > > If you want to use hostapd on the card and the system is running > > NetworkManager, you can tell NM to ignore the device through the > > "unmanaged-devices" option in NetworkManager.conf. manpages have more > > details. > > But I don't want NM to ignore the device - I use the wifi card with NM > as a client. But sometimes I'd like to use hostapd directly (as NM > does not allow me to configure AP parameters - channel, wpa number, > AP name and password). It was possible before, but not any more. NM actually does allow you to do that by editing the hotspot connection files directly. The various UIs (nm-applet, GNOME Shell, etc) may or may not expose specific knobs like these. We intend to add AP mode support to nm-connection-editor, but there are some complications around valid options in AP mode that need to be addressed in the editor UI first. If you take a look into /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ you should see the config file, where you can edit stuff like 'channel', 'ssid', 'band', 'pairwise', 'group', 'proto', etc, stuff that's familiar to wpa_supplicant config too. See 'man nm-settings' for more details on all these key/value pairs. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
