[Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> Is that because the wlan card does not support hostap (I haven't
> verified this)?

Correct. We have experimental kernel patches + firmware for this but
they are very *very* green.

> What if the card simply ran in ad-hoc mode? It might
> support a small pool...

Ugh... I honestly prefer not to go there. Better to recommend a
USB-wlan that _can_ do hostapd.

cheers,



m
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