Re: statically address wifi interface without an SSID

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe d umn edu>]

Hey Dan,

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 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?

And it is configured via the "hotspot" option in NM?

Does it handle DHCP or do I need to run that separately? Currently using udhcpd.

Thanks!

-m