Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:50104 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754652AbZCETNG (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:13:06 -0500 Message-ID: <49B02425.5030005@candelatech.com> (sfid-20090305_201321_705998_F5BB2D26) Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:12:37 -0800 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pat-lkml@erley.org CC: Dan Williams , Alexey Yudichev , "Christoph .J Thompson" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ath5k master (AP) mode References: <4dd58f490903041329p54ec56ceh1b64ab000027eac5@mail.gmail.com> <4dd58f490903041333y4e2abe8r72204232ec4a65ac@mail.gmail.com> <20090304232625.cc47eb46.cjsthompson@gmail.com> <4dd58f490903041451x5044b464k47d70b1210b12f11@mail.gmail.com> <49AF077D.2020408@erley.org> <1236253402.31456.8.camel@localhost> <041a41424b1a9851b471a7a3b794dc47@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <041a41424b1a9851b471a7a3b794dc47@127.0.0.1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: pat-lkml@erley.org wrote: >>> I don't know if it's intended, or just not implemented, but iwconfig >>> mode master >>> won't work with mac80211 drivers. Hostapd knows how to set master mode >>> on it's own. >> Hostapd needs to be used for master mode in *any* case. So yes, its >> intended that you need hostapd for master mode with mac80211 drivers. >> Just switching the card to master mode simply won't work, because >> there's oh-so-much-more setup required in addition to that, which >> hostapd knows how to do. >> >> Dan > > Thanks for confirming this. It was what I understood to be the case, > and what experimentation had shown, but I was not sure if it was by > design, or just not implemented yet. Seems like iwconfig should have a more useful error message, telling users to use hostapd for this particular driver, instead of just a generic error... Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com