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Mike Mazur schrieb: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm trying to set up my laptop to be a wireless access point. It has |
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> an iwl3945 card. I followed the "Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point" |
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> article on gentoo-wiki.com[1] before realizing that it was Atheros |
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> specific. |
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> Part of the setup uses hostapd[2]. Looking at this, it's not |
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> immediately clear that iwlwifi is supported. |
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> Does anyone know whether it's possible to use hostapd with iwlwifi |
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> drivers? Is there an alternative access point software I can use? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mike |
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> [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Atheros_Ath5k_Wireless_Access_Point |
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> [2] http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd/ |
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Sorry, your hardware doesn't support working as an access point. |
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Except of buying new hardware, I think your only chance is to run in |
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ad-hoc mode. |
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