Re: statically address wifi interface without an SSID

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 11:47 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have an rpi2 with two USB wifi dongles. One dongle I use to connect
> to whatever wifi network I'm around. This works great. Thanks NM!
>
> The other wifi dongle I'm using with hostapd.
>
> I'd love for NM to be able to statically address this interface
> without needing to assign it an SSID - since the interface is running
> in master mode.
>
> Does anyone know if this is possible? Perhaps by manually tweaking
> files in /etc/NetworkManager?

NM can use wpa_supplicant's lightweight AP mode to do most of what
hostapd does, if you don't need extensive features like 802.1x/EAP.
 Perhaps that could work instead of hostapd?

Dan