On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz<bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: > Sameer Verma wrote: >> Hi Ben, >> >> So, you were referring to NM's inability to handle switching to hostap >> (making the wireless card act as an AP)? http://hostap.epitest.fi/ > > I'm aware of hostapd. In fact, I'm running it right now on an Athlon box > in the living room, which acts as my apartment's access point.
Yes, I did the same for many years...quite a learning experience. We used to run our college's network off a 133MHz Pentium laptop on RH 6 :-) > I'm merely > noting that hostapd (or equivalent) is not yet available via > NetworkManager, so implementing AP mode in Sugar would require a > significant restructuring of the networking code. Does the driver for Marvell chipset on the XO support hostapd (outside of NM of course)? Sameer > > --Ben > > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel