Re: Offtopic? Windows 7 Virtual Wifi adapter.

[Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com>]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM, John W. Linville
<linville tuxdriver com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:57:05AM -0400, Tom Sutherland wrote:
>> Ran across this article today:
>>
>> http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/microsofts-virtual-wifi-will-make-windows-7-wireless-adapters-d/
>>
>>
>> >From the article...
>> "The tech lets one piece of WiFi hardware be represented in Windows as
>> two separate adapters, meaning you can connect to two hotspots
>> simultaneously if you like, or turn your virtual device into an access
>> point that others can connect to."
>>
>> In the long term, would something like that be relevant to
>> networkmanager?
>
> You have to make it work in the kernel first...
>
> John
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Don't some wireless drivers support this already with multiple
subinterfaces that correspond to a VLAN?