Anna wrote: > So unless someone comes out and says, "hey, the XO's wifi does > support AP mode," it's gonna have to be an external dongle.
No, the XO's wifi does not provide AP mode. When we say "XO's wifi" it is a large collection of things that must work together. There's the radio module, the firmware that runs on the module, the driver in the kernel, and the application. Everything has to be in place to provide AP mode. The XO-1 radio module called 8388 ... does not provide AP mode, because it doesn't have enough onboard memory, and what extra it had is used for the mesh mode. So there is no firmware for the 8388 that provides AP mode, and no driver in the kernel. The XO-1.5, XO-1.75 and XO-4 radio module called 8686 which does 802.11g (2.4 GHz) ... does provide AP mode, using different firmware to the default, but the kernel in our OLPC OS builds do not have a driver for this. The XO-4 module called 8787 which does 802.11an (5 GHz) ... does support AP mode, but the kernel in our OLPC OS builds do not have a driver for this. So: - for XO-1 it is "can't support" without a tremendous effort, for something we probably can't even buy in quantity these days, - for XO-1.5 and XO-1.75 it "won't support" without a huge effort, and - for XO-4 it "won't support" without a large effort. ;-) I agree, get an external radio module. After all, you aren't going to want every child to run an AP, so why would you pay for every laptop to be able to do it? -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
