On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:30:52 +0000 (UTC) Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > OTOH, it seems that "iwl3945" driver does not allow the card to be > set in master mode (AP), as you said: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers That is correct. > > Additional documentation on this can be found here: > > http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/hostapd Which tells me this: #change wlan0 to your wireless device interface=wlan0 driver=nl80211 ssid=test channel=1 If that config errors out with something like: hostapd $ sudo hostapd ./hostapd.conf Configuration file: ./hostapd.conf Line 2: invalid/unknown driver 'nl80211' 1 errors found in configuration file './hostapd.conf' that means that your distro is not shipping hostapd with nl80211 driver support... ergo - Debian hostapd package is not shipping with nl80211 support. Whether that is, in fact, the correct driver to use is a different story. So far it looks like it _should_ work with the 3945 AND should provide master mode functionality. And really it looks like the debian package isn't shipping with ANY of the drivers. Maybe they are supposed to be kernel drivers ? I don't think so, as the above web page tells me that these are supposed to be user space. I'm in the unfortunate position of blazing a trail here. Most of the information is scattered all over and contradictory. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110101101721.403a6...@bamboo.deldotd.com
