Re: Regarding AP mode
On 11/03/2015 05:59 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote:
> Can anyone tell the drivers compatible with Broadcom 43142 supporting
> AP mode?
>
> The hardware supports AP mode (tested).
> I am desperately in need of AP on my machine.
>
> Debian Jessie 8.2 system with Gnome 3, Dell Inspiron 3543
Over the past few weeks, I too had felt the need to have my machine
serve up a wireless hotspot.
Unless I am horribly mistaken, the GNOME frontend to NetworkManager as
offered in Debian 8 only supports WEP from the GUI. This is also the
case with nm-applet. But, the KDE frontend to NetworkManager, i.e.,
plasma-nm _does_ offer a way using the GUI to create a WPA hotspot.
I bit the bullet, installed just plasma-nm, set up the hotspot, and
then got rid of plasma-nm and its dependencies.
Hope this helps somewhat.
--
Udyant Wig
p.s. The GNOME version of Fedora, now termed Workstation, can create a
hotspot.
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