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Re: [RFC/RFT] cfg80211/nl80211: add IBSS API

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On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 16:33 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> When you want to create an IBSS on channel 5, what do you do?
> 
> I think you have to
> 	iwconfig wlan0 essid test
> 	iwconfig wlan0 channel 5
> 	iwconfig wlan0 ap off # clear fixed channel bit
> 
> which is ... weird. OTOH with mac80211 you can also say
> 	iconfig wlan0 channel -1

Ah, there's "iwconfig wlan0 channel auto" as an alias for this, I guess
that's an acceptable way to do it.

johannes

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