----- Original Message ----- > From: "todd rme" <toddrme2...@gmail.com> > http://www.wi-fi.org/discover-and-learn/wi-fi-direct
Thanks. > It is normally something built into the network card. The wireless > chipset needs to have support for it. As I said, it is already being > implemented in wpa supplicant. > > From wikipedia: > > Wi-Fi Direct, previously known as Wi-Fi P2P, is a standard that > allows Wi-Fi devices to connect to each other without the need for a > wireless access point. Is it just that someone failed to realize there is ad-hoc wifi mode? > This allows Wi-Fi Direct devices to directly transfer > data between each other with greatly reduced setup. Wi-Fi Direct > works > by embedding a limited wireless access point into the devices, and > using Wi-Fi Protected Setup system to negotiate a link. The only think I heard about WPS is that it is insecure. Sorry for that. Maybe I'm just commenting on something I don't have enough information on. > Setup > generally consists of bringing two Wi-Fi Direct devices together and > then triggering a "pairing" between them, using a button on one of > the > devices, or systems such as NFC. > > >> Android now supports it for sending video, and it looks like TVs > >> will > >> start implementing it for receiving video in the near future. > >> People > >> have been working on this in wpa_supplicant, but I don't know its > >> status so this project may require some hacking there too. > >> > >> 3. Implement auto-detection of connection status. > > > > This is already supported roughly in a way you are describing it > > below. > > It is? I have tried connecting under these circumstances and nothing > remotely like this happened. > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > networkmanager-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list networkmanager-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
