RealHotspot availability

[Pavel Alexeev]

20.05.2012 04:32, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> 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.
Now I run hostapd which long time in Fedora especially for my wife's 
Android deviсe which do not allow connect AdHoc without root environment.
> About nvidia , if you are talking about property driver , rpmfusion just
> built new drivers , about 6 hours ago.
>
> Thanks,