On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:47:20PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote: > Why do only certain wireless cards support host AP mode or IBSS mode? > Is the 'modality' hardwired into the wifi hardware? > > For the archives (since I couldn't find anything on this), the drivers > that support being wireless routers (Host AP mode) are: > acs(4), ath(4), pgt(4), ral(4), rtw(4), rum(4), ural(4) and wi(4) > > Drivers that support joining ad-hoc networks: > acx(4), an(4), ath(4), atu(4), atw(4), ipw(4), iwi(4), pgt(4), ral(4), > ray(4), rtw(4), rum(4), ural(4), urtw(4), wi(4) > > Drivers that can be ad-hoc "masters" (is this still correct or are > ad-hoc masters outdated?): > wi(4) > > (zyd(4) says the chip has the ability to do ad-hoc but "more work is > required", and googling > (http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/11-2005/18095.html) > suggests it can be an access point too) >
The list is not correct. acx(4) is quite fine in host-ap mode (I guess acs(4) is a typo in the first list). Being not able to do host-ap mode on wifi cards are either HW limitations or documentation limitation. So not much we can do about it. -- :wq Claudio
