GuruPlug Plus as a wireless router

[phaoost]

Hi,

does anyone know if there a possibility to run GuruPlug Plus as a wireless router using built-in wifi? Or shall I need another external wifi adapter for that?

[fragfutter]

it is unknown if the integrated wifi adapter can run in master mode. Propably not, but we'll only know when the plug ships.

[phaoost]

Well, that would be good to hear from developers before you buy

[obarthelemy]

The wifi chip is a Marvel 88w8688 (http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-guruplugdetails.aspx#block)

the tech specs say nothing specifically about Master mode (http://www.marvell.com/products/wireless/8688.pdf), but the marketing blurb (http://www.marvell.com/company/news/press_detail.html?releaseID=1237) does:

"The Marvell 88W8688 provides a Marvell mobile hotspot mode that can be used to transform any CE device with an Internet connection into a wireless hotspot; this feature is optimized for very low power consumption on battery-powered CE devices."

So the answer is probably yes. Probably ...

[madman2003]

I haven't seen any evidence that master mode will work (the driver makes no mention of it as far as i can tell). If it were supported it would be mentioned in the datasheet.

[obarthelemy]

what else could the "mobile hotspot" mode be ?

This is not a troll, I'm really wondering... BT instead of Wifi ?

[birdman]

There's probably a difference between the hardware being able to do it and the driver being written and configurable to make it happen.

[Mootif1]

I just found new Guruplug pages from Wiki. Please look at
http://plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Recreating_the_GuruPlug_RFS

In that page it says:

"By default, the RFS boots up within an AP mode with the SSID GuruPlug-4E2F (where 4E2F are the least significant two bytes of the MAC Address). The GuruPlug acts as a wireless router and treats the wired interface as the WAN interface."