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From: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
To: Alex <alex9434@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: carl9170: Problems setting up Virtual Interface
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 23:42:05 +0200
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On Monday, July 04, 2011 11:23:04 PM Alex wrote:
> # iw dev wlan0 interface add wlan1 type station
> # iw dev wlan1-wlan0 connect AlexBox
> command failed: Network is down (-100)
Just start/up the interface and try again...
this can be done by ip link or ifconfig.

However, iw connect only works with unencrypted or WEP
networks. Getting it to work with wpa_supplicant is
more tricky since you'll have to disable scanning
completely.

Regards,
	Chr