Neo as cellular modem?

Ivo Anjo knuckles at gmail.com
Thu May 29 12:24:11 CEST 2008


I think, for example, you can't do WPA in ad-hoc mode (only WPA2), so
there's a reason. There are some others like this one.

Ivo

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Alexey Feldgendler <alexey at feldgendler.ru>
wrote:

> On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:59:10 +0200, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
>
>  We're helpless unless Atheros decided to implement Master mode in their
>> closed firmware.  Unfortunately the power advantages of having the bulk
>> of the ieee80211 actions managed in the firmware are pretty compelling
>> so I don't know how we get out of that bind.
>>
>
> The very knowledge that we can't do something that the hardware would
> technically be capable of is annoying, but I don't really see why we would
> need to implement a true AP in the phone. For any reasonable use case I can
> think of, ad-hoc mode should be enough. The only usability advantage of
> being an AP would be that it can send beacon packets that allow other
> devices to detect an available network, but sending beacon would be a
> battery drain anyway.
>
>
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