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Dren

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From: Canada

Registered: 2010-12-14

Posts: 28

Setting my wireless card to master mode

I'm surprised I survived in the world of Arch this long without breaking down and asking for help, but here I am.

So I'm trying to set my Linksys WUSB54GC to use master mode with hostapd. "iwconfig wlan0 mode master" tells me I gave an invalid argument, from what I understand this is normal, this is where hostapd comes in. When I try to run it it gives me this error:

Failed to create interface mon.wlan0: -23 (Too many open files in system)
Try to remove and re-create mon.wlan0
Using interface wlan0 with hwaddr 00:1c:10:e6:72:c8 and ssid 'test'
wlan0: STA 00:23:51:98:f5:69 IEEE 802.11: disassociated
wlan0: IEEE 802.11 disassociated

with this config file:

#change wlan0 to your wireless device
interface=wlan0
driver=nl80211
ssid=test
channel=1

And I have to reboot my internet connecton. I can't tell what I'm dong wrong.

Edit: Forget it. I misunderstood how APs work.

Last edited by Dren (2010-12-15 02:07:05)