Master mode is deliberately disabled at this time. You can enable it by applying: http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/004-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:25 AM, David Shwatrz <dshwatrz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > I have a short question: > I wonder how can a command like : > "iwconfig wlan0 mode Master" > should succeed ; > I did tried it on some wireless NIC, which probably does not support > master mode, and got: > "Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : > SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument." > > > The reason is this: > I look at the kernel code which implements receiving the set mode IOCTL. > > The method is ieee80211_ioctl_siwmode(), in net/mac80211/wext.c. > > (I am looking at the last git wireless tree; it appears here below). > > As far as I can see, we don't handle the "Master" mode in the case > sentence , so when we try to set the mode to Master, > by : > "iwconfig wlan0 mode Master" > we will always get to the default and exit with > "return -EINVAL" > > Am I wrong here ? can somebody please explain? > > static int ieee80211_ioctl_siwmode(struct net_device *dev, > struct iw_request_info *info, > __u32 *mode, char *extra) > { > struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata = IEEE80211_DEV_TO_SUB_IF(dev); > int type; > > if (sdata->vif.type == IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_VLAN) > return -EOPNOTSUPP; > > switch (*mode) { > case IW_MODE_INFRA: > type = IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_STA; > break; > case IW_MODE_ADHOC: > type = IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_IBSS; > break; > case IW_MODE_REPEAT: > type = IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_WDS; > break; > case IW_MODE_MONITOR: > type = IEEE80211_IF_TYPE_MNTR; > break; > default: > return -EINVAL; > } > > return ieee80211_if_change_type(sdata, type); > } > > > Any ideas? > Regards, > DS > -- > 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
