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

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 12/25/2012 03:36 PM, Alexander Volovics wrote:
> 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.

When doing this a few months ago, it was quite easy.
You do not have to download or compile anything on Fedora,
just a couple of easy things in the conf file and it is
working perfectly.

But this was not on iwlwifi, it was a random wifi USB dongle
which happened to have a good chipset.
I'm curious to know if it is possible to do that with iwlwifi.
(the kernel version is important in these cases)

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