From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: pat-lkml@erley.org
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
Alexey Yudichev <ayudichev@yahoo.co.uk>,
"Christoph .J Thompson" <cjsthompson@gmail.com>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ath5k master (AP) mode
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:12:37 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B02425.5030005@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <041a41424b1a9851b471a7a3b794dc47@127.0.0.1>
pat-lkml@erley.org wrote:
>>> I don't know if it's intended, or just not implemented, but iwconfig
>>> <iface> mode master
>>> won't work with mac80211 drivers. Hostapd knows how to set master mode
>>> on it's own.
>> Hostapd needs to be used for master mode in *any* case. So yes, its
>> intended that you need hostapd for master mode with mac80211 drivers.
>> Just switching the card to master mode simply won't work, because
>> there's oh-so-much-more setup required in addition to that, which
>> hostapd knows how to do.
>>
>> Dan
>
> Thanks for confirming this. It was what I understood to be the case,
> and what experimentation had shown, but I was not sure if it was by
> design, or just not implemented yet.
Seems like iwconfig should have a more useful error message,
telling users to use hostapd for this particular driver,
instead of just a generic error...
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-05 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4dd58f490903041329p54ec56ceh1b64ab000027eac5@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-04 21:33 ` ath5k master (AP) mode Alexey Yudichev
2009-03-04 22:26 ` Christoph .J Thompson
2009-03-04 22:51 ` Alexey Yudichev
2009-03-04 22:25 ` Christoph J. Thompson
2009-03-05 22:49 ` Alexey Yudichev
2009-03-06 7:45 ` Christoph J. Thompson
2009-03-10 21:04 ` Alexey Yudichev
2009-03-10 21:37 ` Christoph .J Thompson
2009-03-10 21:58 ` Bob Copeland
2009-03-11 21:51 ` Alexey Yudichev
[not found] ` <4dd58f490905310754g2f01b083sd35831747ff93d4f@mail.gmail.com>
2009-05-31 14:56 ` Alexey Yudichev
2009-03-04 22:58 ` pat-lkml
2009-03-05 11:43 ` Dan Williams
2009-03-05 19:09 ` pat-lkml
2009-03-05 19:12 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-03-05 22:21 ` Gábor Stefanik
2009-02-13 21:28 Jeff Tchang
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-11 18:47 Norman Rieß
2009-02-11 21:04 ` Bob Copeland
2009-02-11 22:34 ` pat-lkml
2009-02-12 9:12 ` Norman Rieß
2008-11-12 21:48 RUMI Szabolcs
2008-11-12 22:46 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-11-12 23:46 ` RUMI Szabolcs
2008-11-13 17:11 ` RUMI Szabolcs
2008-11-13 17:49 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-13 22:59 ` RUMI Szabolcs
2008-11-13 23:03 ` Johannes Berg
2008-11-13 23:07 ` Nick Kossifidis
2008-11-14 10:15 ` RUMI Szabolcs
2009-02-10 12:14 ` RUMI Szabolcs
2009-02-11 21:49 ` Nick Kossifidis
2009-02-12 2:11 ` Ben Greear
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