From: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: Virtual interface as AP
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:03:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288180992.26265.36.camel@jm-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101027111136.36130@gmx.net>
On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 04:11 -0700, "Lorna Gonz?lez" wrote:
> I am trying to build a virtual interface (not wiphy) operating in master mode using hostapd. Using wiphys (echo > add ...wiphy) I am able to configurate a wiphy as station and another one as AP. It works perfectly but by setting the AP creating a new interface as:
>
> iw phy phy0 interface add wlan1 type master
>
> and changing its MAC Adress, it does not work. Other stations can not find this virtual AP.
I would recommend using hostapd to add/remove those interfaces, i.e., do
not use iw manually, but add new bss=<ifname> entries to the end of
hostapd.conf.
- Jouni
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-27 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-27 11:11 [ath9k-devel] ath9k: Virtual interface as AP "Lorna González"
2010-10-27 12:03 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
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2010-10-27 14:11 "Lorna González"
2010-10-27 14:24 ` Mohammed Shafi
2010-10-27 14:29 ` "Lorna González"
2010-10-27 14:42 ` Mohammed Shafi
2010-10-27 14:56 ` Peter Stuge
2010-10-27 15:02 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-10-27 16:32 ` "Lorna González"
2010-10-28 7:36 ` jean-pierre cartal
2010-10-28 7:47 "Lorna González"
2010-10-28 8:03 ` Jouni Malinen
2010-11-11 15:06 ` "Lorna González"
2010-11-11 17:00 ` Ben Greear
2010-11-12 9:21 ` "Lorna González"
2010-11-12 17:22 ` Ben Greear
2010-10-31 21:48 "Lorna González"
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