On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 10:03 -0400, Bobby Powers wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Sameer Verma<sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: > > 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)? > > I don't believe so. I remember hearing that there's not enough room > in Flash on the XO1's Marvell chip for firmware that does both regular > client/mesh as well as hostap.
On the XO, only ad-hoc en client mode are possible last time I tested it. So no monitoring and ap modus. hostap-modus needs to be supported by the firmware. open a shell, su - to root to play with iwconfig (man iwconfig) to learn more. Maybe it can work with an usb-wlan-dongle. kind regards, Marten > > Bobby > > > Sameer > >> > >> --Ben > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- Marten Vijn linux 2.0.18 OpenBSD 3.6 FreeBSD 4.6 http://martenvijn.nl http://opencommunitycamp.org http://wifisoft.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel