iwlist finding out Wifi adaptor's adhoc ability

[lilzz]

I have one the Edimax wifi adapter and on spec it says it support adhoc.

I did

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 iwlist AP

Nothing is shown. Can adhoc ability be shown programmatically?

[DougieLawson]

The edimax driver in Linux/Raspbian does NOT support ad-hoc.

You need a special driver to support running an edimax as an access point. AFAIK there is no ad-hoc driver available.

[lilzz]

The edimax driver in Linux/Raspbian does NOT support ad-hoc.

You need a special driver to support running an edimax as an access point. AFAIK there is no ad-hoc driver available.

so if it supports it. iwlist AP should list its capability ?

[DougieLawson]

The edimax driver in Linux/Raspbian does NOT support ad-hoc.

You need a special driver to support running an edimax as an access point. AFAIK there is no ad-hoc driver available.

so if it supports it. iwlist AP should list its capability ?

Maybe. It depends if iwlist is using some sort of standard driver API.