RealHotspot availability

[Sérgio Basto]

On Sex, 2012-05-18 at 21:49 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: 
> On 05/18/2012 09:42 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 18:21 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> >> In looking back through some of the meeting minutes I saw that RealHotspot has been approved for Fedora 18.
> >>
> >>     ===================================
> >>     #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2012-03-19)
> >>     ===================================
> >>
> >>
> >>     Meeting started by limburgher at 18:00:23 UTC. The full logs are
> >>     available at
> >>     http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-03-19/fesco.2012-03-19-18.00.log.html
> >>     .
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     Meeting summary
> >>     ---------------
> >>     ...
> >>
> >>     * #823 F18 Feature: Network Manager hotspots -
> >>       https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RealHotspot  (limburgher,
> >>       18:08:10)
> >>       * AGREED: F18 Network Manager hotspots is passed  (+8,-:0,0:0)
> >>         (limburgher, 18:10:51)
> >>     ... 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What are the chances of having RealHotspot backported for F17 and F16 and available as an update?
> > For F17 at least, quite good if your network card supports it.  At the
> > moment, that means Intel 6xxx and later, ath5k, ath9k, and perhaps a few
> > others.  Try this:
> >
> > iw phy
> >
> > and if under "Supported interface modes:" you see "AP", then your card
> > and driver are capable of real AP mode.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> >> None of my devices will connect using adhoc connection in my Fedora 16 installation and having a true AP hotspot would
> >> certainly improve things tremendously.
> >>
> >> .
> >>
> >>
> >
> Thanks Dan.
> 
> # iw list | sed -n '/Supported interface modes/,/AP/p'
>     Supported interface modes:
>          * IBSS
>          * managed
>          * AP
> 
> Looks like I'm good as far as my card and driver.
> 
> Just hoping for a backport to F16 since I have one of those nvidia video cards that couldn't run F17.

This project is awesome, I need it to connect my android !, and I will
try follow it. I don't know what is need but we always can get all
packages from 18 and compile in 16.
About nvidia , if you are talking about property driver , rpmfusion just
built new drivers , about 6 hours ago.

Thanks,
-- 
Sérgio M. B.