On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 06:42 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > The patch "prism54: set carrier flags correctly" makes my > prism54 device in AP mode come up without a carrier, which > in causes IPv6 to not add a link-local address, which in > turn causes radvd (configured to announce routes on that > device) to refuse to start, breaking IPv6 for the entire > network. > > I didn't check whether a carrier is detected once a client > associates, but in any case it seems to me that a device > in AP mode should always indicate a carrier. Should always indicate a carrier _when it's configured and up_. If you just go 'iwconfig eth1 mode master' it shouldn't, but if you do: ifconfig eth1 up iwconfig eth1 mode master essid foobar then it should. Dan -- 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
