From: "Gábor Stefanik" <netrolller.3d@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Kennedy <nathan@flidais.net>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM43XG Master mode?
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:59:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <69e28c910908221159r78f6dfffsab59fe4c4c4e5906@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250967366.23605.23.camel@johannes.local>
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Johannes Berg<johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 11:41 -0700, Nathan Kennedy wrote:
>> I recently purchased a Linksys WMP300N that has teh BCM43XG chipset.
>> The only driver that I've gotten to work well with it is the wl driver
>> from Broadcom, however when I try to set the wireless mode to master I
>> get an error that the operation is not permitted. Is there a different
>> way to get this card into master mode?
>
> If you're using wl, then we don't know, and you have to ask Broadcom.
>
> If you're using b43, you start hostapd.
>
> johannes
>
WMP300N is an N-PHY, not supported by b43 (LP-PHY is being done right
now, N-PHY is probably the next). AFAIK wl (the hybrid driver) only
supports STA mode, there is no AP-ready x86 driver (Broadcom only
makes AP drivers for the MIPS platform).
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-22 18:41 Broadcom BCM43XG Master mode? Nathan Kennedy
2009-08-22 18:56 ` Johannes Berg
2009-08-22 18:59 ` Nathan Kennedy
2009-08-22 18:59 ` Gábor Stefanik [this message]
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