From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N6iEH-00069h-Ou for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:09:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80D39E088B; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CFF8E088B for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.internal [10.202.2.42]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF8BABE817; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:09:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:09:03 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=messagingengine.com; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type; s=smtpout; bh=c2HyeWJkJxfgZqkL+Grb1MQDNW4=; b=Soi8/3ApbVBfd/eyhoSMoN6Mrr1GXvqt5bg8D8ppBvmtvzbFDw8+pcVBmBnsPEt55s0vy6+wpX24PflBu1cinP5lxz3+VKZr3NBUG35+nBH/sdt+pfiCkSNZEoRIedu+95RfH6d2NV+1rY7zT13xBqX28tsV7OS933jngwle7Sc= X-Sasl-enc: pOebOxbwChDld9gQNTEH6kI4vaI4vSAIRz7FS1WPoYSf 1257588542 Received: from [192.168.5.10] (lvps83-169-5-6.dedicated.hosteurope.de [83.169.5.6]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E770C1F80C for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:09:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4AF54739.9090808@f_philipp.fastmail.net> Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:08:57 +0100 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091003) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] WiFi access point with iwl3945 References: <184110a70911062121p4b3ef789m2f237b8e95552400@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <184110a70911062121p4b3ef789m2f237b8e95552400@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6993DFB81DD58B05BBB81241" X-Archives-Salt: e37b0583-a9bf-40ae-af6f-139616a5391d X-Archives-Hash: e2bf9774aa1f300cff25632c7d3f551b This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6993DFB81DD58B05BBB81241 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mike Mazur schrieb: > Hi, >=20 > I'm trying to set up my laptop to be a wireless access point. It has > an iwl3945 card. I followed the "Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point" > article on gentoo-wiki.com[1] before realizing that it was Atheros > specific. >=20 > Part of the setup uses hostapd[2]. Looking at this, it's not > immediately clear that iwlwifi is supported. >=20 > Does anyone know whether it's possible to use hostapd with iwlwifi > drivers? Is there an alternative access point software I can use? >=20 > Thanks, > Mike >=20 >=20 > [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Atheros_Ath5k_Wireless_Access_Point > [2] http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd/ >=20 Sorry, your hardware doesn't support working as an access point. Except of buying new hardware, I think your only chance is to run in ad-hoc mode. --------------enig6993DFB81DD58B05BBB81241 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkr1RzsACgkQqs4uOUlOuU8u8wCaA+bXH1n5zLxljvksG8yr11hy 7QIAn1y0ztv1EGJv/BAnzmrIa3bcu/oq =tjnM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6993DFB81DD58B05BBB81241--