Hostap vs Access Point

[Timothy Murphy]

John Summerfied wrote:

>> Basically, I want to allow my grand-daughter's Sony PSP
>> to communicate with the world,
>> and that seems to require an Access Point.
>> 
> "eth1" represents your wireless network card. It could be something
> different.
> 
> ifconfig eth1 # and other stuff
> iwconfig eth1 mode master key s:freds # and maybe other stuff

Thanks very much for your response.
Unfortunately, I don't seem able
to change the mode of my Orinoco Gold card to "master":

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[tim at martha ~]$ sudo iwconfig eth0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device eth0 ; Operation not supported.
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