On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 22:37 +0100, Michael Below wrote: > Sorry, too much traffic for me, unsubscribing. I'd be happy if you > contact me off-list about the Wifi sharing functionality. > > (So far I haven't found a single person successfully using > networkmanager for wifi sharing, so something like "yes, I have managed > to configure an access point" would be a fine start...)
Full AP-mode (ie, Infrastructure) support was added after NetworkManager 0.9.6 and will be in the next release. It also requires a reasonably new version of wpa_supplicant, at least anything 1.0 or later should work. NetworkManager 0.9.6 and earlier only support ad-hoc mode "hotspot" functionality, and WPA is disabled here because there are kernel driver bugs that make your supposedly ad-hoc WPA hotspot actually be created as an open/unencrypted hotspot, which isn't cool. Thus only open and WEP are supported. There's ongoing work to also add RSN IBSS (ie, WPA2 Ad-Hoc) support for hotspots in NetworkManager, which is useful if your hardware doesn't support full AP mode which even a lot of recent cards don't. That has yet to land. Dan > Am Sonntag, den 25.11.2012, 16:44 +0100 schrieb Michael Below: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to use networkmanager for Wifi sharing. The situation: > > > > I have a Debian testing AMD64 system, connected to the LAN, with an > > additional D-Link System AirPlus G DWL-G122 Wireless Adapter(rev.C1) > > [Ralink RT2571W] I want to use to occasionally provide Wifi for some > > devices. > > > > After trying this with networkmanager unsuccessfully for a first time, I > > set up an access point using hostapd. This works fine in general, but > > the GNOME apps like evolution, pidgin etc. believe the network is down, > > so they don't connect to the network. Probably they ask networkmanager > > for the status of eth0, which isn't up. I didn't find a way to tell > > networkmanager to look for br0 instead. > > > > Now I tried setting it up again with networkmanager. The trouble starts > > in the basic setup: networkmanager doesn't remember my settings. I want > > Infrastructure mode with WPA, not Ad hoc mode with WEP. Basically, I > > just want networkmanager to do it like I set it up with hostapd. > > networkmanager shouldn't forget my settings every time I disable the > > network. > > > > The networkmanager packages are version 0.9.4 > > > > Is there a way to use networkmanager for Wifi sharing? Either to get it > > to notice that br0 is there, or to have it setup a stable access point > > of its own? > > > > Cheers > > > > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
