10.04 as access point?

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3ball
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10.04 as access point?

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Any progress on this becoming capable to use the wireless as an access point (master mode)? I'd be happy to throw down a small bounty to get this rolling.

3ball
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Re: 10.04 as access point?

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And yes, I've read the posts that say master mode capability has not been implemented... from months ago. Thought I'd not be "that guy".

fly
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Re: 10.04 as access point?

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Nope, for rt2x00 project this is most likely a WONTFIX issue (if someone writes the code, they would not decline it of course) and for the driver provided by ralink, well.. I haven't checked their site recently, but I doubt there is going much work into this one (if any..).

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Maybe I was wrong on this one, at least some people claim having AP mode working. USB wifi chip in fitpc2i might not perform that well, but the mini pci chip found in standard fitpc2 might get AP support... someday:
> > After that we had discussion with Ralink and now I can confirm that
> > this chip can work as AP and STA in the same time.
> >
> > Ralink has closed versions of rt3070sta.ko module. It can be
> > compiled as rt3070ap.ko and rt3070apsta.ko
> >
> > We still did not test it, but we got confirmation from Ralink and
> > driver source codes.
>
> Well not the driver source, since Ralink only released it as closed
> source driver...

We got rt3070ap sources after SLA document was signed.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Johannes Stezenbach <js at sig21.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:42:48PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> I went ahead and tried stable compat-wireless-2.6.36-rc3-1
> with a 2.6.32 kernel, and it seems that it works
> in station, ibss and AP modes.
[1] http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermai ... 01665.html
[2] http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/pipermai ... 02055.html

3ball
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Re: 10.04 as access point?

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I can confirm the USB drivers do work as an access point mode with 10.04 server.

This seals all issues I've had now using this little guy as my router, firewall, DDNS relay host, my webserver, my ftp server, and nice replacement for my old WRT54GL.

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