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Title: Wifi-direct on olinuxino A13?
Post by: chsy0823 on March 21, 2013, 12:42:53 PM
Hi I have Olinuxino a13 wifi model.

And I want to connect A13 to another device using wifi-direct module.

But it seemed that a13 wifi model doesn't support wifi-direct. So I'll buy a wifi-direct module -RT5370.

If I buy wifi module, can I use it without any settings? Or should I edit some kernel device drive  or something?
Title: Re: Wifi-direct on olinuxino A13?
Post by: BJFreeman on March 22, 2013, 05:17:54 PM
Not sure what you mean by wifi-direct,
I have a A13 with Wifi built in and it works fine.
Title: Re: Wifi-direct on olinuxino A13?
Post by: chsy0823 on March 25, 2013, 08:57:53 AM
I have to make A13 as server for socket communication between two device.

A13-WIFI has wifi inside but I cannot make server by itself, it just detect other wifi.

I need ad-hoc mode to make itself as server and I want to connect to a13 with other device.

That's what I need Wifi-direct for.
Title: Re: Wifi-direct on olinuxino A13?
Post by: Tele on March 25, 2013, 06:30:23 PM
It would be much easier, if you would make your wifi gateway/router on your desktop PC. For example if you have Windows7, then it takes about 10 minutes to set up one.
Watch this tube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iApVeiSVgE4
or, you can find many similar lessons on the net. An then you can connect to it with your Oli, as usual.

Doing the same on Oli-Wifi card is a bit harder thing, but its possible of course. I don't think it depends on Oli's wifi chip or wifi driver, you don't need to buy anything, in my opinion. A good linux-networking guru-dude could explain the settings, I'm not good enough for this. But I'm interested as well.
I watch this topic :)
Title: Re: Wifi-direct on olinuxino A13?
Post by: chsy0823 on March 28, 2013, 06:41:18 AM
yeah I see. Thanks dude!

But I don't have any linux-networking guru dude.. TT