From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Question about iwl3945
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:23:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D2640F3.3000505@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1294347881.25228.0.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
On 01/06/2011 03:04 PM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:58 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
>> Is there any reason why the Intel3495 wireless card using the iwl3945 driver
>> with kernel 2.6.34 does not work in AP mode using hostapd? The message is
>>
>> nl80211: Failed to set interface wlan0 into AP mode
>> nl80211 driver initialization failed.
>
> Neither 3945 nor 4965 can ever support AP mode due to firmware
> restrictions, sorry.
Thanks. Don't worry, I'm not trying to convert a $600 laptop into a $30 access
point! In fact, I already own 4 APs. A year ago, I wrote a howto for the
openSUSE forums, and someone is trying to follow my prescription. He had some
nasty things to say about the 3945 when I gave him the bad news. Unfortunately,
he will be buying another wifi card and not an AP.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-06 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-06 20:58 Question about iwl3945 Larry Finger
2011-01-06 21:04 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-06 22:23 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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