From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:42585 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933248AbZHVTAJ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:00:09 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so327590fga.17 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:00:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1250967366.23605.23.camel@johannes.local> References: <4A903BEB.4030606@flidais.net> <1250967366.23605.23.camel@johannes.local> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E1bor_Stefanik?= Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:59:50 +0200 Message-ID: <69e28c910908221159r78f6dfffsab59fe4c4c4e5906@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM43XG Master mode? To: Nathan Kennedy , Johannes Berg Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Johannes Berg 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). -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-)