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#21
Originally Posted by Jaracz View Post
And would it be also possible to implement WPA2 as a security protocol? WEP is kind of old and compromised...
That's one of the easy parts
 
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
The most difficult thing in the task is to make it coexist nicely with the existing Harmattan infra which would like to see the WLAN connection just as a client device. The kernel part is the easy part

You need to hack the startup scripts so that when you do a normal wlan connect it will load the normal mode wl12xx drivers (wl12xx_spi, wl12xx_sdio) and push up the wl1271-fw.bin firmware to the chip, and when you set up the AP mode it will unload the normal mode cleanly, push up the wl1271-fw-ap.bin firmware and kll off the network manager without affecting the 3g connection...
See, you already provided a solution
 

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Originally Posted by nieldk View Post
See, you already provided a solution
Well I have been thinking about this a bit.... Not yet in the implementation stage though
 
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For those interessted, the linux kernel pages describes quite well what needs to be considered to achieve this (and other work)

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/wl12xx

For one, if we want to implement the open source drivers, it *seems* two firmware blobs for station and accespoint modes, plus, the sdio seems not supported anymore (eg on our 2.6.32 kernel) - a good reason to try to change this
 
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