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mac80211_hwsim: Update documentation (AP mode enabled)
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AP mode is now enabled in mac80211, so there is no need to point users
to an additional patch to enable the mode. In addition, add a pointer to
more hwsim test cases in hostap.git.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jouni Malinen authored and John W. Linville committed Nov 21, 2008
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Expand Up @@ -50,10 +50,6 @@ associates with the AP. hostapd and wpa_supplicant are used to take
care of WPA2-PSK authentication. In addition, hostapd is also
processing access point side of association.

Please note that the current Linux kernel does not enable AP mode, so a
simple patch is needed to enable AP mode selection:
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/006-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch


# Build mac80211_hwsim as part of kernel configuration

Expand All @@ -65,3 +61,8 @@ hostapd hostapd.conf

# Run wpa_supplicant (station) for wlan1
wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf


More test cases are available in hostap.git:
git://w1.fi/srv/git/hostap.git and mac80211_hwsim/tests subdirectory
(http://w1.fi/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=hostap.git;a=tree;f=mac80211_hwsim/tests)

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