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

[Sameer Verma]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Benjamin M.
Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:
>>>  Also, I believe
>>> NetworkManager still has no concept of AP mode
>>
>> Do you mean that with NM you can't become an AP ?
>
> Yes.  That video does _not_ show the connection-sharing computer becoming
> an Access Point.  It shows it becoming a node on an ad hoc network.  This
> means that, unlike an Access Point, it will not forward packets between
> other computers on the network, thus creating the mutual routability
> problems that we have been describing.
>
> --Ben
>
>

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/

Sameer
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