Re: Madwifi AP using hostapd on Fedora 12

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 16:30 +0000, James Allsopp wrote:
> Hi,
> Has anyone managed to do this? I'm not interested in ath5k as it's not
> supported by hostapd. At the moment I'm having trouble changing the
> mode. I'm not at that computer at the moment so I can't be more
> specific, but if anyone has any suggestions, I would be very grateful.

Changing the mode doesn't work in MadWifi at all.  You need to create an
interface in AP mode, either by wlanconfig or by using the "autocreate"
parameter when loading ath_pci:

modprobe ath_pci autocreate=ap

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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