FS#31464 - [wpa_supplicant] Enable lightweight AP mode, P2P, and RSN IBSS
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Opened by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Saturday, 08 September 2012, 08:56 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Saturday, 13 October 2012, 20:56 GMT
Opened by Matthias Dienstbier (fs4000) - Saturday, 08 September 2012, 08:56 GMT
Last edited by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Saturday, 13 October 2012, 20:56 GMT
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Fedora recently enabled lightweight AP mode, P2P, and RSN
IBSS in their wpa_supplicant build[1]. NetworkManager can
already use the AP mode feature to provide a better Internet
Connection Sharing via WiFi[2]. We probably should also
enable CONFIG_IEEE80211N for High Throughput support in AP
mode if this doesn't cause serious issues. And perhaps there
are more interesting features I'm not aware of.
[1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/wpa_supplicant.git/commit/?id=16eae335b8b710abef21dcf9df4294533f2b42a1 [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RealHotspot |
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Closed by Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Saturday, 13 October 2012, 20:56 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: Package going up to testing.
Saturday, 13 October 2012, 20:56 GMT
Reason for closing: Implemented
Additional comments about closing: Package going up to testing.
I was wrong about NetworkManager. It doesn't support AP mode yet but it will be added soon.
Another feature missing in Archlinux package is CONFIG_BGSCAN_SIMPLE. This lets wpa_supplicant keep track of networks while connected to another one. It's also used by ConnMan for this feature.