Re: Offtopic? Windows 7 Virtual Wifi adapter.

[Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>]

John W. Linville a écrit :
> 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...

At least the ath_pci / madwifi driver does it (tested). For a start have a look at "VAP creation" in the wlanconfig configuration tool.

Successors of ath_pci seem to still feature VAPs?

I think the (core) kernel itself does not care; it probably cannot even tell the difference with someone having multiple *real* interfaces.