Bug 272952

Summary:	Using wifi adapter as wireless antenna
Product:	Network Management	Reporter:	Germano Massullo <germano.massullo>
Component:	Wireless	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	lamarque, lukas, rdieter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Germano Massullo 2011-05-10 16:29:54 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

I am a Fedora KDE user. When KDE 4 was relased, Fedora started using nm-applet of Gnome for internet connection, instead of using KDE connection manager.
Nm-applet allows special wifi connection, let me do an example to clarify:
I have a laptop connected with cabled ethernet connection, and with nm-applet I am able to use the laptop wireless antenna as a wifi access point.
I asked on IRC if this is possible also with KDE connection manager, but seems it is not possible.
So it would be cool if in future KDE developers will include this function in KDE.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-05-10 19:56:07 UTC

This is possible with the latest snapshot of Plasma NM. Just create a wireless connection of type "ad-hoc" and IPv4 method "shared", and activate the connection:

http://lamarque-lvs.blogspot.com/2011/04/plasma-nm-bridging.html

Comment 2 Lamarque V. Souza 2011-09-11 16:48:35 UTC

212941

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 212941 ***