On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Johannes Berg<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 11:41 -0700, Nathan Kennedy wrote: >> I recently purchased a Linksys WMP300N that has teh BCM43XG chipset. >> The only driver that I've gotten to work well with it is the wl driver >> from Broadcom, however when I try to set the wireless mode to master I >> get an error that the operation is not permitted. Is there a different >> way to get this card into master mode? > > If you're using wl, then we don't know, and you have to ask Broadcom. > > If you're using b43, you start hostapd. > > johannes > WMP300N is an N-PHY, not supported by b43 (LP-PHY is being done right now, N-PHY is probably the next). AFAIK wl (the hybrid driver) only supports STA mode, there is no AP-ready x86 driver (Broadcom only makes AP drivers for the MIPS platform). -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
