Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> Because of this NM can't create ad-hoc networks because it does it while >> the device is up. >> Any ideas? > > Fix NM? It can easily try it one way and if it fails, try the other. NM has some other things that needed fixing last time I looked at it... it thought it knew better than I did if a wireless interface was in Monitor mode that I "really wanted it" to be in Managed. -Andy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html