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

[Rami Rosen]

Hi,
You can take a look in this table, in the AP column:
http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers

In the past, you could test for master mode by
"iwconfig wlan0 mode master". In recent kernels
it is not supported, so don't try it (it gives error also with devices
that support 80211.n).

The right way to test it is indeed with hostapd. It could be
that you better try with the git tree of hostapd in case you have
quirks with the rpm hostapd.

Good Luck!

Rami Rosen

http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/networkoverview

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> wrote:
> 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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