2010-05-25 20:07:40

by Jaroslav Fojtik

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Subject: What does it mean: "Failed to create interface mon.wlan0."?

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