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has caused the Debian Bug report #489915,
regarding madwifi-source: iwconfig fails to move the card to Ad-Hoc mode
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Package: madwifi-source
Version: 1:0.9.4~rc2-1
Severity: important
Moving a card to Ad-Hoc mode should be done directly by iwconfig but
normal change by iwconfig interface mode Ad-Hoc return an error :
"Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument"
but if i reload the moudle with the parameter "modprobe ath_pci
autocreate=adhoc" .
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages madwifi-source depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.5-0.1 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii debhelper 7.0.10 helper programs for debian/rules
ii module-assistant 0.10.11.0 tool to make module package creati
madwifi-source recommends no packages.
-- debconf-show failed
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tag 489915 wontfix
thanks
This is the behaviour as documented in
https://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/ChangingMode. It is unlikely that this
will be changed upstream. Closing.
Matthew W. S. Bell
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