From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
645055@bugs.debian.org, "Antoine Beaupré" <anarcat@koumbit.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:10:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E964896.5050004@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1318461858.4024.197.camel@deadeye>
On 10/12/2011 06:24 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> I looked a little further and saw that nl80211 does support changing
> interface type (mode). But this driver (rtl8192ce) only supports
> creating new interfaces, not changing their type.
>
> Should mac80211 drivers generally support changing interface type
> (change_interface operation)?
I don't think that implementation of the WEXT interface is necessary. As to
using iw, the following sequence worked:
iw dev wlan14 interface add wlan15 type adhoc
iw dev set rename5 type managed
iw dev set rename5 type adhoc
Why it was called "rename5" when I asked for "wlan15" is not understood, but the
iw interface changes the mode for an existing interface when using rtl8192ce.
BTW, I added a new iface because I did not want to interrupt my internat connection.
Larry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-13 2:10 UTC|newest]
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2011-10-12 23:24 ` Bug#645055: realtek 8188CE ad-hoc mode not supported Ben Hutchings
2011-10-13 1:46 ` Antoine Beaupré
2011-10-13 2:10 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2011-10-13 2:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-13 2:31 ` Antoine Beaupré
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