ath5k access point in Fedora 12
John W. Linville
linville at redhat.com
Thu Dec 3 19:20:37 UTC 2009
On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:01:52PM +0000, James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> has anyone had any joy getting an atheros card working in Master mode in
> Fedora 12. All the options in the networking and network-script directories
> say Mode=Master but it won't start. The error on bringing wlan0 up is;
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
> SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
"Master" mode is not available with mac80211-based drivers. You need
to run hostapd:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/modes
Hth!
John
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