Hi maemo talk,

I wonder if we can enable WiFi hotspot using infrastructure mode in N9?

Please vote this enhancement for N9 WiFi hotspot infrastructure mode : https://harmattan-bugs.nokia.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1033

not supported by hardware, adhoc is only supported.

The kernel version is high enough to support the new generic 80211 wifi stack. It should be possible to run hostapd with driver=nl80211 as long as the latest compat-wifi backported wifi drivers are compiled in as a module (this means inception/openmode).

This is on my todo list, but I'm hella busy, so if you can interest somebody who can/has compiled their own kernels for the n9 then they'd probably be able to get this going quite quickly if this is possible.

Then there is NAT and being a dhcp daemon. NAT is also a module and thus a bit of a pain, in fact it might not even be possible as a straight module as I believe it needs a specifically chosen kernel option baked in, meaning openmode only. It's also not 100% necessary as almost all devices support using a proxy and you could install one in userspace along with dhcp daemon, both of which are trivial.

i really hope not to u se inception for infra mode...but since no package provided b nokia for hotsapd....urgh