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Zeeb" To: j4wq9pzbjnxb@gazeta.pl cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Access Point mode for the Intel AX210 card in the iwlwifi driver In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-OpenPGP-Key-Id: 0x14003F198FEFA3E77207EE8D2B58B8F83CCF1842 List-Id: Discussions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-wireless List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Thu, 14 Nov 2024, j4wq9pzbjnxb@gazeta.pl wrote: > > The Intel AX210 (Wi-Fi 6) card does not currently support Access Point (HOSTAP) mode in the iwlwifi driver for FreeBSD. The system logs display the message 'HOSTAP mode not supp > orted,' indicating that this mode is not available. Is there any estimate timeline when support for HOSTAP mode will be implemented in the driver. The iwlwifi supports hostap only for 11a and with that is a bit special. I currently have no plans to add HOSTAP support to LinuxKPI for iwlwifi; more likely it'll come with some other drivers in the future which make a lot more sense to run as AP. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7