Is there an obvious list of consumer products (NOT chipsets) that hostapd supports that I'm missing? I want to make a wireless Access Point, using either a USB dongle, PCI card, or PCIE x1 card. I have already got a DHCP server and NAT in both my desktop PC and router, I don't want to pay for an expensive external wireless router which would be a 3rd DHCP and NAT. None of the consumer devices' websites say which chipset they use, and none the chipset manufactures' sites say what consumer products use their chipset, so I can't just search for devices that support this. I've foolishly just bought a Netgear WNA1100, because it was "close enough" to a Netgear WNA1000, which possibly supports AP mode, but that wasn't available. I thought it got away with it, because this page: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc says that driver supports AP mode. I've upgraded to Linux 3.0 and installed the htc_9271.fw firmware, and the device shows up in /proc/net/dev, but now hostapd is giving me the errors: rfkill: Cannot open RFKILL control device Hardware does not support configured mode wlan0: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured mode (2) Could not select hw_mode and channel. (-2) wlan0: Unable to setup interface. rmdir[ctrl_interface]: No such file or directory Does this device and driver support AP mode or not? If the driver doesn't, then the web page is wrong. If the driver does but the device doesn't, then the website should make that clear. I'm not bothered at all if the WNA1100 was a waste of money, it's the amount of time I've wasted on this so far. Please CC me on any responses, I'm not subscribed. Thanks, Laurence -- 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
