Subject: Re: cfg80211_wext_siwmode() strange behaviour
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:14:00 +0100
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On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 15:43 +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> I had tried to set an rt73usb-based nic to work in secondary mode
> (NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN)
> by "iwconfig wlan3 mode secondary". (according to "man iwconfig", this
> operation is supported).
>=20
> I get:
>=20
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>     SET failed on device wlan3 ; Invalid argument.

This is intentional, since you need hostapd.

johannes

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