Hello Avinash, Thanks! That works for me. Would it be possible to add this to the mwifiex page on wireless.kernel.org? As far as I know, this command is completely undocumented within iw, and I know I'm not the only Dreamplug owner experiencing this problem. As for other issues, I'm seeing a hang in the TX queue on the device after running an AP for a while, but I'm still gathering information on that. I'll follow up with another thread. Thanks, Andrew On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Avinash Patil <avinashapatil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > AP interface can be created using iw utility. Command is as follows: > > iw dev mlan0 interface add uap0 type __ap > > There onwards hostapd can be used to start mwifiex AP operations. Please let > me know if you face any issues. > > Thanks, > Avinashw > > On Feb 2, 2014 8:28 AM, "Andrew Wiley" <wiley.andrew.j@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hello linux-wireless, >> >> I'm trying to get AP mode to work on a Marvell Kirkwood-based >> Dreamplug with an SD8787 SDIO wireless chipset. >> >> Originally, the mwifiex driver would create three interfaces when it >> loaded - mlan0, uap0, and ptp0, for station mode, AP mode, and PTP >> mode, respectively. That behavior was removed in commit 1211c ( >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/wireless/mwifiex?id=1211c961170cedb21c30d5bb7e2033c8720b38db >> ) because NetworkManager was trying to use all of the interfaces >> rather than just mlan0. >> >> As I understand it, the normal workflow for this is that hostapd >> changes an interface from station mode to AP mode when it starts up, >> but when it tries to do this on the mlan0 interface, nl80211 returns >> Operation Not Supported. Depending on the version of hostapd, it >> either bails out there or tries to continue and bails out later in >> setup. >> >> If I revert the patch I linked above, the driver creates the uap0 >> interface and I can run an AP with hostapd (although it has some other >> issues - more on that in a later post). >> >> What is the "correct" way to access AP mode with this driver? As far >> as I'm aware, there are no userspace utilities to directly create an >> AP-mode interface, and mwifiex doesn't seem to support the normal >> workflow that hostapd is trying to do. >> >> Thanks, >> Andrew >> -- >> 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 -- 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
