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From: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:03:12 +0300
Subject: [ath9k-devel] ath9k: Virtual interface as AP
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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