[Sugar-devel] [Design] Ad-hoc networks - New Icons

[Bobby Powers]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Sameer Verma<sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Benjamin M.
> Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> Sameer Verma wrote:
>>> Hi Ben,
>>>
>>> So, you were referring to NM's inability to handle switching to hostap
>>> (making the wireless card act as an AP)? http://hostap.epitest.fi/
>>
>> I'm aware of hostapd.  In fact, I'm running it right now on an Athlon box
>> in the living room, which acts as my apartment's access point.
>
> Yes, I did the same for many years...quite a learning experience. We
> used to run our college's network off a 133MHz Pentium laptop on RH 6
> :-)
>
>> I'm merely
>> noting that hostapd (or equivalent) is not yet available via
>> NetworkManager, so implementing AP mode in Sugar would require a
>> significant restructuring of the networking code.
>
> Does the driver for Marvell chipset on the XO support hostapd (outside
> of NM of course)?

I don't believe so.  I remember hearing that there's not enough room
in Flash on the XO1's Marvell chip for firmware that does both regular
client/mesh as well as hostap.

Bobby

> Sameer
>>
>> --Ben
>>
>>
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