2008/11/14 RUMI Szabolcs <rumi_ml@xxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:49:10 +0100
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> > I have compiled a kernel from wireless-testing git of today (2.6.28-rc4-wl)
>> > then recompiled and tested hostapd-0.6.5 against that,
>>
>> look, you need hostapd from git
>
> If you look a bit further down in that email, I've also tried
> exactly that afterwards but unfortunately it made no difference.
>
> BTW I've made a diff -rduN between hostapd-0.6.5 and todays -git
> but haven't spotted anything relevant to my problem anyway.
>
> To summarize:
>
> 2.6.27 + hostapd-0.6.5 = NO
> 2.6.27 + OpenWRT hack + hostapd-0.6.5 = NO
> compat-wireless-2008-11-12 + hostapd-0.6.5 = NO
> wireless-testing-git + hostapd-0.6.5 = NO
> wireless-testing-git + hostapd-git = NO
>
> In fact I've also tried hostapd-0.6.4 and 0.5.10 at some point
> but they didn't make anything better.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sab
Have you enabled AP mode on the driver ?
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
index e09ed2c..69aad6e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ ath5k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
hw->wiphy->interface_modes =
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) |
+ BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) |
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) |
BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT);
Code for AP mode is there but it's not enabled yet until we do further
tests (it didn't work on some 5413 hw etc, now after PCU updates it
should work but we still need to test it)
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Nick
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