On 01/10/2017 08:09 AM, pit wrote:
jdd wrote:
It can support multiple connections, while a
client connects to one AP, etc. You really ought to read up on WiFi. O'Reilly has some good books that describe it.
as I said, I already configured this pretty easily, but for the use I had it could be fully open
https://www.suse.com/documentation/sled11/book_sle_admin/data/sec_wireless_w...
it needs a compatible wifi card Hmm, even the sled documentation doesn't give proper information how to set up an access point. It does confirm though that it won't work with WPA.
That link also contains: "If however you want to use your WLAN card as access point, set the Operating Mode to Master. Note that not all WLAN cards support this mode." How many WiFi NICs actually support it?
So I tried it with the open configuration in master mode, but even with that it won't bring up the interface (iwconfig will still report it as Managed and Not-Associated). I cannot connect to it from other devices.
Are you sure you didn't just set up an ad-hoc ptp connection?
Pit
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