Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> > My question is - is there something inherent which prevents >> > implementing it with "iw"? When comparing to the old set of tools, >> > which includes iwconifg, "iwconfig wlan0 mode Master" works on some >> > interfaces. >> >> Just guessing, but most probably because there are no drivers which >> use nl80211 and support AP mode without hostapd, so nobody hasn't >> bothered to implement it, yet. > > And there never will be since we don't want the whole AP MLME in the > kernel regardless of the driver. Actually I was thinking about fullmac hardware which support AP mode. In theory we might need to support those, but I guess in practise there hasn't been, nor ever will be, such hardware. I'll just shut up now :) -- Kalle Valo -- 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
