[ath9k-devel] Setting master mode

[John Murphy <john.murphy@mandac.ie>]

Hi Frito, Rodolphe and Will,

Many thanks indeed for your help, it was a great help to me. As soon as
I have it up and running fully I will post the details and then distill
it into a howto for the Ubuntu list also.

Thanks again. It's a great list with great contributors. 

John


On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 08:54 -0700, Frito Lay wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> I'm no expert, but since you didn't get any replies (except for that
> troll), I'll add my two cents.
> 
> You didn't mention how you are trying to set the cards to master mode,
> I assume you are using iwconfig, if so, try with hostapd.  Apparently
> hostapd and iwconfig use different kernel methods for this. (I'm not
> completely sure about this, corrections are accepted).
> 
> You might also want to check the module options for whatever module
> you are using with your wireless cards, some modules set the master
> mode based on parameters.  Just run: modinfo <module_name> and see if
> there is anything relevant.
> 
> I don't know what is jaunty or compat-wireless-xxx, there are so many
> distros, releases, and package names that you can't expect everyone to
> know that (except when discussing in the distro's mailing list).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Frito
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: John Murphy <john.murphy@mandac.ie>
> To: ath9k-devel at lists.ath9k.org
> Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 9:36:23 PM
> Subject: [ath9k-devel] Setting master mode
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to this list so apologies in advance for asking a question
> that
> may have been answered before.
> 
> I am trying to setup a Jaunty box as an AP with a card in master mode.
> I
> downloaded kernel 2.6.31, enabled mac80211 then rebuilt and installed
> the new kernel. I have tried two different PCI cards, one based in the
> Realteck chipset RTL-8185 and the other based on the Atheros AR5007G.
> The problem is that I cannot set either card to Master mode. I have am
> using compat-wireless-2.6.31-rc7 and kernel 2.6.31-2.6.31. Any help,
> suggestions or valium would be most welcome right now.
> 
> John 
> 
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