From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GcwtB-0001wP-9l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:30:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9Q4SBTK010213; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:28:11 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.225]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9Q4Q9Nr018653 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:26:10 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id r21so455560wxc for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:26:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=pYFZKH0u5j0AN2zKhHCGy/5GSgj/zK7EjYDvu3PUW8sCfqFYq/jPZ1tsG+f9dm5sDMSXa/bNGMsgR8t+x1GP4zMOWkSqWgy2rv6a17++CpFyzvlrMsRGpYvsai3ZN5VQMpvRjOY90axr6vDrGW5yXY/bMP2TQdAQMMHNm1Mfq+4= Received: by 10.70.67.15 with SMTP id p15mr2458657wxa; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ymir.donotfeedtheray.com ( [124.243.156.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i33sm583918wxd.2006.10.25.21.26.07; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:26:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo wirelesss access point Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:55:57 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <1161753537.31350.47.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1161753537.31350.47.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610261355.57857.dystopianray@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 41b7c61b-d5d3-4dba-8203-395525a9eb2a X-Archives-Hash: 27707d76af414728ec6680dd118a56c3 On Wednesday 25 October 2006 14:48, W.Kenworthy wrote: > Can someone point me to a document so I can set up a gentoo laptop with > a built in ipw2200 wireless as an access point using wpa ??? > > I need to use it for a demo of some wireless 802.11 phones. Looking at > the conf.d/net file doesnt show what I need to fill out to get a working > access point. > > Or is this best done manually (iwconfig and wpa_supplicant) > > BillK The drivers in the kernel and the ipw2200 ebuild don't support master mode. This project: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipw2200-ap adds master mode support for ipw2200 cards although I have no idea what state it is in. It's not in portage but there are probably ebuilds floating around somewhere for it. -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list