Hi everybody,
My trusty ASUS WL-300G is dying on me and I'm hoping to use my new
low-power VIA C7 linux server as an access point.
I run Linux 2.6.25, with:
00:08.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
Based on:
rt61pci 23808 0
rt2x00pci 11008 1 rt61pci
rt2x00lib 23808 2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
rfkill 7700 1 rt2x00lib
input_polldev 5256 1 rt2x00lib
crc_itu_t 2304 1 rt2x00lib
eeprom_93cx6 2432 1 rt61pci
And it works very well. I've tried 'hostapd' 0.5.9 and 0.5.10 in
various modes but all of them fail very early with warnings about:
Configuration file: /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf
ctrl_interface_group=0
ioctl[PRISM2_IOCTL_PRISM2_PARAM]: Operation not supported
Could not enable hostapd mode for interface wlan0
# Driver interface type (hostap/wired/madwifi/prism54; default: hostap)
driver=hostap
I've trawled the web and found Johannes Berg's patches, but they
appear to indicate that recent hostap & linux kernels don't need any
patches.
Am I trying to do something that can't work? Or do I need patches? I'm
more than willing to patch & test.
Thanks for your attention - if I figure out how this works I'll write
a small HOWTO.
Bert
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