Hi Dénes, On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Dénes Németh <mr.nemeth.denes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > Could you help me the determine if the Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 > is supported in AP / master mode? > > Your website http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi states > that the "AP mode (experimental; only on some devices/firmware versions)" > > Is the wifi card above supported? > > Here is my debug info, at the bottom with the failure of changing to master mode > dmesg: > loaded firmware version 18.168.6.1 > cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: EU > > iw list wlan0 > Supported interface modes: > * IBSS > * managed > * AP > * AP/VLAN > * monitor > software interface modes (can always be added): > * AP/VLAN > * monitor > > iwconfig wlan0 mode master > Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument You're doing it wrong, you _must_ use hostapd to configure master (AP) mode, the kernel cannot do it itself. Read this page: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd Thanks, -- Julian Calaby Email: julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/ .Plan: http://sites.google.com/site/juliancalaby/ -- 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
