On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 03:06:40PM +0100, hw wrote: > On Mon, 2023-11-27 at 14:54 +0100, Hans wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > just before I am trying forever: > > > > Is it possible, to connect two hosts directly over wlan without using a > > router? > > You don't need a router for it; you can do it via an access point.
...and as others have said, you might set your laptop up as an access point, so you possibly don't need extra hardware. Hostapd is the program to do the magic [0]. As people have said here, you need your WiFi adapter to play along, not everyone seems willing to. And then, there is WiFi Ad Hoc, here [1] in the Debian context. No idea whether this would work with any WiFi hardware. Cheers [0] https://packages.debian.org/stable/hostapd [1] https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/AdHoc -- t
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