Kernel allowing AP mode for Wireless Tether?

[Coolsaber57]

Chevy,

You've been making Kernels for a while, and they're awesome! I wanted to post this up there to see if it's even possible to include this into your kernels, or if it's too specific to the HTC incredible.

This guy enabled AP mode for his stock HTC Incredible Kernel. I wonder if you could port the code over into your kernel?

SUCCESS! Wireless tether in AP Mode (NOT ad-hoc) + WPA2 Encryption - xda-developers

[ck42]

Was just doing searches for this exact topic. Also been running Chevy's ROMs for a while now.

So, I'm wondering the same thing here. Having trouble getting a couple of devices to actually pass data (according to the tether app, they DO connect but that's as far as things ever go). The obvious fix is to use the tether in infrastructure mode instead of IBSS.

[MrC1122]

Chevy,

You've been making Kernels for a while, and they're awesome! I wanted to post this up there to see if it's even possible to include this into your kernels, or if it's too specific to the HTC incredible.

This guy enabled AP mode for his stock HTC Incredible Kernel. I wonder if you could port the code over into your kernel?

SUCCESS! Wireless tether in AP Mode (NOT ad-hoc) + WPA2 Encryption - xda-developers

maybe it's just me...but doesn't having wifi enabled kinda defeat the purpose of ap mode?

[ck42]

Chevy,

You've been making Kernels for a while, and they're awesome! I wanted to post this up there to see if it's even possible to include this into your kernels, or if it's too specific to the HTC incredible.

This guy enabled AP mode for his stock HTC Incredible Kernel. I wonder if you could port the code over into your kernel?

SUCCESS! Wireless tether in AP Mode (NOT ad-hoc) + WPA2 Encryption - xda-developers

maybe it's just me...but doesn't having wifi enabled kinda defeat the purpose of ap mode?

Having wifi on (Droid acting as a wifi client) means that you are not wanting to act as an AP in order to provide service to others. Maybe you've just misinterpreted the desire to have AP tethering.

If you want to allow others to connect to your Droid using wifi, it would typically mean that you are wanting to share your 3G connection with those wifi devices that would otherwise not have Internet access.

[ChevyNo1]

I did look into this - what the dev is enabling is specific to a broadcom wifi chip that we do not have on our droids Can't seem to find anything similar

[Coolsaber57]

I did look into this - what the dev is enabling is specific to a broadcom wifi chip that we do not have on our droids Can't seem to find anything similar

I was afraid of that.

[ck42]

wow....that's going to be a major bummer if we cannot ever get real infrastructure mode tethering to work.

[reistar]

I did look into this - what the dev is enabling is specific to a broadcom wifi chip that we do not have on our droids Can't seem to find anything similar

Blame TI. They haven't released a firmware that enables AP mode. Check the N900 that has the same WL1271 chip. They don't have AP mode either.

This does suck as all the newer phones have it. ((

[MrC1122]

If you want to allow others to connect to your Droid using wifi, it would typically mean that you are wanting to share your 3G connection with those wifi devices that would otherwise not have Internet access.

not entirely true...you can use wifi, (wireless tethering) and not share...simply use encryption, i do it all the time...or am i still missing something here?

[RemyL75]

If you want to allow others to connect to your Droid using wifi, it would typically mean that you are wanting to share your 3G connection with those wifi devices that would otherwise not have Internet access.

not entirely true...you can use wifi, (wireless tethering) and not share...simply use encryption, i do it all the time...or am i still missing something here?

Basically, we want to use our Droids as wifi hotspots for other devices (other phones, laptops, netbooks, game systems, etc). In most of these cases, we can't because the other devices (especially Android-based devices) cannot see ad-hoc networks.