ath5k access point in Fedora 12

[John W. Linville]

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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