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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cfg80211_wext_siwmode() strange behaviour
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:14:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234714440.4219.72.camel@johannes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55c333c0902150543m6bc92789n3d299cf26e65236@mail.gmail.com> (sfid-20090215_144331_648583_009E8672)

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On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 15:43 +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> I had tried to set an rt73usb-based nic to work in secondary mode
> (NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN)
> by "iwconfig wlan3 mode secondary". (according to "man iwconfig", this
> operation is supported).
> 
> I get:
> 
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>     SET failed on device wlan3 ; Invalid argument.

This is intentional, since you need hostapd.

johannes

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-15 13:43 cfg80211_wext_siwmode() strange behaviour Kevin Wilson
2009-02-15 16:14 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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