On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 18:21 -0400, Gerry Reno wrote: > In looking back through some of the meeting minutes I saw that RealHotspot > has been approved for Fedora 18. > > =================================== > #fedora-meeting: FESCO (2012-03-19) > =================================== > > > Meeting started by limburgher at 18:00:23 UTC. The full logs are > available at > > http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2012-03-19/fesco.2012-03-19-18.00.log.html > . > > > > Meeting summary > --------------- > ... > > * #823 F18 Feature: Network Manager hotspots - > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/RealHotspot (limburgher, > 18:08:10) > * AGREED: F18 Network Manager hotspots is passed (+8,-:0,0:0) > (limburgher, 18:10:51) > ... > > > > What are the chances of having RealHotspot backported for F17 and F16 and > available as an update?
For F17 at least, quite good if your network card supports it. At the moment, that means Intel 6xxx and later, ath5k, ath9k, and perhaps a few others. Try this: iw phy and if under "Supported interface modes:" you see "AP", then your card and driver are capable of real AP mode. Dan > None of my devices will connect using adhoc connection in my Fedora 16 > installation and having a true AP hotspot would > certainly improve things tremendously. > > . > > -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
