Fulko Hew wrote:
While not exactly a Rawhide question, I'm hard pressed to find out the real state of 'monitor mode' for the Intel iwl3954.
The sourceforge page is (IMHO) terrible to find out anything useful, but I see that: a) one person has asked for 'master mode' to be added to the driver and b) another mailing list posting from Feb 2007, saying it should be in the driver.
Which is it?
The page on Linux Wireless at: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers says the feature doesn't exist.
Who's right?
... and Intel's page doesn't really say anything at all about features, road map, etc.
My motivation is/was... After attending a company meeting with 20 people in the room and only one network connection I thought it should be simple to config my F8 box to act as a bridge between the wireless and the wired network, but I understand I have to flip the iwl3945 driver into 'master mode' first.
Which means "configure as an access point."
Quite correct, and I have done just that - but not with Intel wireless.
An alternative is to buy a wireless router/access point - maybe expensive for infrequent use (but that depends on the depth of your pocket, some are pretty cheap) but better if you're doing it often.
I have a linksys wrt54g which generally works well. Runs Linux, if you don't like its firmware, there are alternatives.