2008/4/29 Lorenzo Nava <navalorenx@xxxxxxxxx>: [...] > > If you look for the thread "Does mac80211 support ap mode" in the > mailing list archive you can find some infos. > You have to download the patch "allow-ap-vlan-mode.patch" that you can > find at http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/ > Then you have to install hostapd (version 0.6.3) with nl80211 driver > (you can find all the informations that you need in the hostapd site). > At the moment you can't enable master mode with iwconfig, you can do > it only with hostapd. > OK, I got it all working with: - wireless-testing kernel, - libnl 1.1, - git master branch of hostapd. But I cannot do WPA, only "clear text". The thing is, my wlan interface is part of a bridge, and the bridge is set up as: brctl addif br0 eth0 brctl addif br0 wlan0 where wlan0 is the b43. I know nada about WPA, but can this have an influence? The MAC address of the bridge is the one of the Ethernet card, not the wireless one, and I specified wlan0 in hostapd.conf as the interface to grab... -- Francis Galiegue, fgaliegue@xxxxxxxxx "It seems obvious [...] that at least some 'business intelligence' tools invest so much intelligence on the business side that they have nothing left for generating SQL queries" (Stéphane Faroult, in "The Art of SQL", ISBN 0-596-00894-5) -- 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
