* Question about iwl3945
@ 2011-01-06 20:58 Larry Finger
2011-01-06 21:04 ` Johannes Berg
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From: Larry Finger @ 2011-01-06 20:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: wireless
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.
Thanks,
Larry
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* Re: Question about iwl3945
2011-01-06 20:58 Question about iwl3945 Larry Finger
@ 2011-01-06 21:04 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-06 22:23 ` Larry Finger
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Johannes Berg @ 2011-01-06 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Larry Finger; +Cc: wireless
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.
johannes
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* Re: Question about iwl3945
2011-01-06 21:04 ` Johannes Berg
@ 2011-01-06 22:23 ` Larry Finger
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Larry Finger @ 2011-01-06 22:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Johannes Berg; +Cc: wireless
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
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