iwn and hostap

[Patrick Lahni]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 3:14 AM, Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt at freebsd.org>wrote:

> On Sunday, June 26, 2011 22:37:36 Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On 26 June 2011 23:26, Patrick Lahni <list at 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.
>
> Afaik, the firmware has basic hostap support, the only real thing
> missing are the powersafe bits. This goes also for IBSS mode, someone
> has to implement proper multi-station support. It's on my todo list..
>
> --
> Bernhard
>

FWIW, they just released a new firmware for 6000g2a over the weekend.  Not
sure if that contains what you're missing but just thought I'd share.
http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-6000g2a-ucode-17.168.5.3.tgz

Patrick