On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 21:33 +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > > Every 120 seconds usually (it uses a simple backoff algorithm), but > > yeah, this is a good thing to do. You probably want to make NM ignore > > the device if you're configuring it as an AP though, since obviously NM > > shouldn't be driving an AP mode interface. > > Actually, I would like to be able to NM to set up a simple AP similarly > to IBSS configuration.. If I'm setting up the interface manually (either > for AP or even for client modes), I would like NM to ignore the device > from that point on, but that is a separate point. NM only knows about devices that NM controls, thus we can't have NM set up the device and then subsequently ignore it... However, at some point in the near future, if we can get reliable information as to whether the driver *does* in fact support AP mode, we can make NM drive the interface in AP mode instead of IBSS. The only reason it's using IBSS right now is that the driver support for AP mode was so inconsistent and buggy. 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
