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jack.mitchell

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From: Ely, Cambridgeshire, UK

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 156

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ath5k master mode

Hi everyone,

I'm having major issues with putting my Atheros AR242x (50007EG, Abit Airpace PCI-Express) card into master mode. I have searched high and low and cannot find a definitive answer to if it is or isn't possible. When I try and put it into master mode I get:

[jack@mediaserver examples]$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
    SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

Is there anyway round this or do I need to install some extra packages (I already have hostap installed).

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:15:AF:17:A5:A0  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-15-AF-17-A5-A0-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

          wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:""  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2352 B   
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Cheers
Jack.

Last edited by jack.mitchell (2009-05-22 15:42:03)

XazZ

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2006-12-30

Posts: 72

Re: ath5k master mode

Hi,

you cannot use iwconfig to put your card in master mode (that's a mac80211 "limitation", well it's not a limitation but a feature )
you can use hostapd to put your card in master mode
maybe the small tool "iw" can also set it into master mode - but I'm not sure about that

regards,
"XazZ"

marwooj

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Registered: 2009-08-21

Posts: 23

Re: ath5k master mode

the same problem here, hostapd does not wont to put
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01)
into master mode