Hey Florian, thanks for the help on this! Ben/Patrick, if you rebase the patches for this functionality, i'm more than happy and willing to do userland testing on this to move it along. regs On 1 August 2010 19:37, Florian Fainelli <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Le Sunday 1 August 2010 03:53:13, Ryszard a écrit : >> Hi all, >> >> i'm working on a project that requires i can create multiple access >> points on the one bit of hardware. After an insane amount of googling >> and reading the lists the closest i've been able to come up with is >> something along the lines of: >> iw dev wlan0 interface add vap0 type __ap >> iw dev wlan0 interface add vap1 type __ap >> >> then using macchanger to assign unique mac addresses. >> >> I've also seen something from March 2009 >> (http://lwn.net/Articles/321690/) that hints at the functionality >> available with the ath9k which gave me a bit of hope! >> >> My question is, is it possible to create multiple virtual access >> points with my hardware ( Atheros Communications Inc. AR5413 802.11abg >> ) and the ath5k/mac80211 drivers (or is there some other method to >> achieve what i'm after) ? i'm not too fussed about different >> channels, but different SSID's and WPA keys are a requirement for the >> project. > > There is support for creating virtual interfaces using iw and ath5k here: > http://www.candelatech.com/oss/vsta.html > > I really wish someone could submit this mainline, unfortunately it is pretty > hard to isolate the commits in this tree which are implementing virtual > interfaces support. > > Ben, Patrick, could you rebase your patches on top of wireless-testing and > send them for review/testing? > -- > Florian > -- 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
