On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 08:07 +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote: > Hi, > > In case you have not seen my posts on planet GNOME I thought I share > them here. Some people made technical comments with hints on how to > implement full hotspot functionality in nm. > http://jaap.haitsma.org/2010/08/16/make-a-portable-hotspot-of-your-laptop-connectify/ > http://jaap.haitsma.org/2010/08/17/make-portable-hotspot-with-gnome-network-manager/
Yeah, I'm going to reply with a blog post too, I've been thinking about this for a whiel ever since all the phones (Evo, Epic, Android 2.2) have been coming out with easy mobile hostspot functionality since June. There are some caveats: 1) driver's AP-mode support is much less complete in general than STA mode; and when the do have support, there are often more bugs. Unfortunately, like Ad-Hoc WPA mode right now, we aren't able to get very good error details about when stuff doesn't work. 2) we need to update our wpa_supplicant support to the new D-Bus API I think; but in any case wpa_supplicant 0.7.x has a "light AP mode" feature that we'd be using for this instead of running full hostapd. Dan > Basically I stumbled over a tool called Connectify > http://connectify.me which makes a real portable hotspot out of your > laptop such that you can share your internet connection and was under > the impression that this did not exist in NM. I was pointed out that > it exists. Only that it is more limited. You can only setup an adhoc > network and not a full hotspot and you cannot share your wireless > internet connection in case you just have one wifi card. > > I think having this full hotspot functionality in NM would be a really > nifty feature. > > Regards, > > Jaap > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
