On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Daniel, > >>> the way I read the nl80211 code is that the NL80211_CMD_NEW_INTERFACE >>> requires a wiphy device to be specified. And that is actually just a >>> number. So I have no idea what the MAC has to here. >>> >> OpenWrt finds a wiphy by its MAC. > > maybe that is the first problem right there. I see that over sysfs you get phy80211/macaddress. However if you do a dump via NL80211_CMD_GET_WIPHY then you do not have the MAC address there. OpenWrt nowadays uses the device path in sysfs/devices to identify wiphys, not the mac anymore (e.g 'pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/ssb0:0'). Jonas -- 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