From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: carl9170: Problems setting up Virtual Interface
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 22:08:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107042208.54936.chunkeey@googlemail.com> (raw)
On Monday, July 04, 2011 09:46:46 PM Alex wrote:
> I am using the carl9170 interface from the 2.6.39.2 kernel with the
> newest carl9170 firmware. I have set-up an AP with hostapd. Everything
> is working so far:
>
> root@box:~# ifconfig
> mon.wlan0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr <deleted>
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:27070 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:4583087 (4.3 MiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
> wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr <deleted>
> inet addr:192.168.80.1 Bcast:192.168.80.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> inet6 addr: fe80::76ea:3aff:fe8f:130c/64 Scope:Link
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:320 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:231 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:28815 (28.1 KiB) TX bytes:26887 (26.2 KiB)
>
> I am now trying to create an additional virtual intereface to connect
> wireless to my router as described on:
>
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Documentation/iw/vif/
>
> with
> iw dev wlan0 interface add wlan1 type station
>
> However, ifconfig does not list the additional wlan1 interface.
The virtual interface might not be listed because it can't be
brought up since it shares the same mac with the main interface.
so try "ifconfig -a" ?
Regards,
Chr
next reply other threads:[~2011-07-04 20:08 UTC|newest]
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2011-07-04 20:08 Christian Lamparter [this message]
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2011-07-04 19:46 carl9170: Problems setting up Virtual Interface Alex
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2011-07-04 20:11 ` Alex
2011-07-04 20:23 ` Christian Lamparter
2011-07-04 20:29 ` Alex
2011-07-04 20:42 ` Christian Lamparter
2011-07-04 20:54 ` Alex
2011-07-04 21:06 ` Christian Lamparter
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2011-07-04 21:42 ` Christian Lamparter
2013-08-14 9:32 ` moony
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