On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 13:56 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > Mark Ryden <markryde@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Thanks for you quick response. I know that I can set master mode > > with hostapd. > > > > My question is - is there something inherent which prevents > > implementing it with "iw"? When comparing to the old set of tools, > > which includes iwconifg, "iwconfig wlan0 mode Master" works on some > > interfaces. > > Just guessing, but most probably because there are no drivers which > use nl80211 and support AP mode without hostapd, so nobody hasn't > bothered to implement it, yet. And there never will be since we don't want the whole AP MLME in the kernel regardless of the driver. johannes
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