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Re: SMC wireless card, unknown Atheros/Accton chipset?

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Hi.

Peter Chant wrote:
> I'm a bit of a wireless newbie.  Do you mind me asking whether it is
> likely to support being an access point?  I noticed that in general
> cards don't work as access points, is it a chipset limitation or is
> it just a whole load of work for something that is not much in demand?

It's currently a limitation of mac80211. Changing that is work in progress
for mac80211, and there is an experimental patch available for ath5k that
enable the driver part of AP support. The patch was posted here just a few
days ago [1].

Bye, Mike

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.ath5k.devel/1240

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