Hi George,<br><br>I have heard that the XO's wifi can't support AP mode, but I hope it's just hearsay. Because that would be really cool if you could put the XO's "ears" into AP mode.<br><br>However, I do have USB wifi dongles that support AP mode and I just took a look into that on an XO 1.75 under 13.1.0. I had to install the firmware, but iw list reported that AP mode is supported. So if the idea is to have the XO be a "self contained" wifi AP, an external dongle might be a solution.<br>
<br>This particular SMC Networks USB wifi dongle was on Woot a few years ago for like $5/each. I got two, because, well, that's a good price and these things come in handy.<br><br>lsusb reports this: (after yum install usbutils)<br>
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0cf3:1002 Atheros Communications, Inc. TP-Link TL-WN821N v2 802.11n [Atheros AR9170]<br><br>I went and got the firmware from here: <a href="http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170#Firmware-1">http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170#Firmware-1</a><br>
<br>Do iw list and you're looking for AP in this section:<br><br> Supported interface modes:<br> * IBSS<br> * managed<br> * AP<br> * AP/VLAN<br> * monitor<br> * P2P-client<br>
* P2P-GO<br><br>The native XO's wifi looks like this:<br><br> Supported interface modes:<br> * IBSS<br> * managed<br><br>With a Ralink USB wifi dongle on my Mint desktop, it "just worked" to turn it into an access point. I mostly followed these instructions for the Pi: <a href="http://thebitbangtheory.blogspot.com/2012/12/turning-raspberry-pi-into-wireless.html">http://thebitbangtheory.blogspot.com/2012/12/turning-raspberry-pi-into-wireless.html</a><br>
<br>So unless someone comes out and says, "hey, the XO's wifi does support AP mode," it's gonna have to be an external dongle.<br><br>Anna Schoolfield<br>Birmingham<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:29 AM, George Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:georgejhunt@gmail.com" target="_blank">georgejhunt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have knowledge about the feasibility of switching the libertas_sdio driver on an XO-1.75 into Access Point mode? If so, is there any documentation therefor?</div>
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</div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>George</div><div><div><br></div><div><div>(modinfo libertas shows:</div><div><div>schoolserver] library > modinfo libertas</div><div>filename: /lib/modules/3.0.19_xo1.75-20120803.1234.olpc.f49cd50/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas.ko</div>
<div>license: GPL</div><div>author: Marvell International Ltd.</div><div>description: Libertas WLAN Driver Library</div><div>depends: </div><div>vermagic: 3.0.19_xo1.75-20120803.1234.olpc.f49cd50 preempt mod_unload ARMv7 </div>
<div>parm: libertas_debug:int</div><div>parm: libertas_disablemesh:int</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>[schoolserver] library > modinfo libertas_sdio</div><div>filename: /lib/modules/3.0.19_xo1.75-20120803.1234.olpc.f49cd50/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas_sdio.ko</div>
<div>license: GPL</div><div>author: Pierre Ossman</div><div>description: Libertas SDIO WLAN Driver</div><div>firmware: sd8688.bin</div><div>firmware: sd8688_helper.bin</div><div>firmware: libertas/sd8688.bin</div>
<div>firmware: libertas/sd8688_helper.bin</div><div>firmware: sd8686.bin</div><div>firmware: sd8686_helper.bin</div><div>firmware: libertas/sd8686_v8.bin</div><div>firmware: libertas/sd8686_v8_helper.bin</div>
<div>firmware: libertas/sd8686_v9.bin</div><div>firmware: libertas/sd8686_v9_helper.bin</div><div>firmware: sd8385.bin</div><div>firmware: sd8385_helper.bin</div><div>firmware: libertas/sd8385.bin</div>
<div>firmware: libertas/sd8385_helper.bin</div><div>alias: sdio:c*v02DFd9104*</div><div>alias: sdio:c*v02DFd9103*</div><div>depends: libertas</div><div>vermagic: 3.0.19_xo1.75-20120803.1234.olpc.f49cd50 preempt mod_unload ARMv7 </div>
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