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Realtek urtw(4) driver and hostap mode

From: Piotrek Kapczuk (piotr.kapczukgmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 11 2009 - 09:25:44 CDT

Hi

I was trying to set up access point with "Realtek RTL8187" wireless
card on 4.5.
After looking into the manpage I thought it has "mediaopt hostap" capability,

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     The following hostname.if(5) example creates a host-based access point on
     boot:

           inet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE media autoselect \
                   mediaopt hostap nwid my_net chan 11
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but, according to this ...
# ifconfig urtw0 media|grep hostap || echo nope
nope

and this ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_wireless_drivers
it simply does not. (sic!)

Are there any plans to add hostap mode to urtw(4) driver ?
May I suggest to delete those lines from the manpage. It misled me.

Regards
Piotr Kapczuk