Re: nm 0.9.8 ap-mode hotspot

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 04:28 +0000, coolano myopera com wrote:
> > At the moment, neither nm-applet or the connection editor support
> > setting real AP mode from the GUI; that's work-in-progress because it
> > requires some rather extensive changes to the way that the editor
> > validates its UI so that you don't end up with incompatible options.
> >
> > here's a sample "keyfile" connection
> > for /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections; you can start it with "nmcli
> > con up id Hotspot":
> >
> > [connection]
> > id=Hotspot
> > uuid=3e13073d-6d7a-440d-ab2b-4f42c9fdacaf
> > type=802-11-wireless
> > autoconnect=false
> >
> > [802-11-wireless]
> > ssid=my Hotspot
> > mode=ap
> > security=802-11-wireless-security
> >
> > [802-11-wireless-security]
> > key-mgmt=wpa-psk
> > psk=really secure password
> >
> > [ipv4]
> > method=shared
> >
> > [ipv6]
> > method=auto
> >
> >
> > Dan
> Thanks, but it not really works.

Ok, then how does it not really work, and can you grab some logs from
wherever syslog dumps information on your distro, which is
usually /var/log/messages or /var/log/daemon.log or /var/log/syslog
or /var/log/NetworkManager.log (depending on your distro)?

Dan