From: "Jaroslav Fojtik" <jafojtik@seznam.cz>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: What does it mean: "Failed to create interface mon.wlan0."?
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:57:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BFC2BBA.9348.415509@jafojtik.seznam.cz> (raw)
Dear Luis R. Rodriguez & ATH5k users,
> > it looks that compat-wireless-2010-05-21 scans when associated.
> > But compat-wireless-2010-05-21 seems to be so defective that I cannot
> > use it.
>
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/Reporting_bugs
>
> Being a little more descriptive would help.
I wished to create a separate thread.
ATH5k stopped to work with this message in dmesg:
Failed to create interface mon.wlan0.
nl80211 driver initialization failed.
But ifconfig lists mon.wlan0 without any problem.
And compat-wireless-2.6.34-rc4 does not suffer with this issue.
regards
Jara
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