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On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>wrote:

> On 26 June 2011 23:26, Patrick Lahni <list@cykotix.com> wrote:
> > Adhoc is supported.  According to iwn(4):
> >
> > iwn supports station, adhoc, and monitor mode operation.
> >
> > I wasn't sure if that means, just for now?  Or is hostap not planned for
> > these cards supported by iwn?
>
> The card runs closed-source firmware which we can't get to the insides
> of. I don't know the exact details, but there may be some features
> which we can't really get to in order to support proper hostap modes.
>
>
> adrian
>


Makes sense.  Hopefully I'll have better luck with a AR9280 instead.  Thanks
for the input.

Patrick