Laptop Intel wireless card as access point (reply nr 2)

[Alexander Volovics]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 12:12:01PM +0530, Suvayu Ali wrote:
 
> I wanted to configure the wireless card on my ThinkPad as a wireless
> access point for my Android phone.  But it seems the Intel iwlwifi
> drivers do not support "master mode".  Can someone confirm?  In case I'm
> wrong, could you please point me to any documentation as to how I can
> configure this?

As a follow up to my first reply.

I got curious and found the following:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd

Seems like a lot of work.

Alexander