Return-path: Received: from server.heaven-czfree.net ([78.108.102.201]:50638 "EHLO smtp.heaven-czfree.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932644Ab0EYUHk (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2010 16:07:40 -0400 Received: from [10.23.202.43] (unknown [10.23.202.43]) by smtp.heaven-czfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA78147682 for ; Tue, 25 May 2010 22:07:38 +0200 (CEST) From: "Jaroslav Fojtik" To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 21:57:46 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: What does it mean: "Failed to create interface mon.wlan0."? Message-ID: <4BFC2BBA.9348.415509@jafojtik.seznam.cz> Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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