You need to apply this patch to enable AP mode: http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/old/all/LATEST/004-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:07 AM, Micha Lenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've managed to get Linux 2.6.26 running on a WGT634U WLAN router. This > device has a little-endian MIPS CPU and has an Atheros miniPCI card for > providing wireless network connectivity. With lspci it is recognized as > an Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01), Engenius > 5354MP Plus ARIES2 b/g MiniPCI Adapter, which should run with the ath5k > kernel driver (compiled into my kernel). > > Now I would like to setup the WLAN device in AP mode, but I didn't > succeed yet. I must confess that I'm not very familiar with the current > wireless framework in the kernel. What I figured out so far is, that I > need iw¹ for wireless settings. So I compiled it and apparently it > basically works. Unfortunately it isn't very good documented yet (i. e. > I had to read the source to figure out what device types it accepts). > I tried the following: > > # iw dev wlan0 del (delete the old wlan0 client mode device, success) > # iw phy phy0 interface add wlan0 type __ap > command failed: Invalid argument (-22) > > As you can see, adding an interface in AP mode doesn't work. > > Today I realized that ath5k simply isn't able to do AP mode yet. I found > the patch² from Jiri posted last week, but I'm now a little bit > confused, what the final consensus on this patch is. I would like to > test the patch, but don't know which one to choose. > > I would appreciate a definitive patch and am looking forward to provide > any feedback needed. > > Regards > Micha > > ¹ http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw > ² http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-ath5k-devel/2008/9/27/3428184 > _______________________________________________ > ath5k-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel > _______________________________________________ ath5k-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ath5k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath5k-devel
