hostap doesn't understand wireless commands

[Jean Tourrilhes]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:01:03AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 February 2003 02:01 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 February 2003 01:28 pm, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> > > Praedor Atrebates wrote :
> > > > Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device
> > > > wlan0 Invalid argument.
> > >
> > > 	Weird... Do :
> > > 		iwconfig --version
> > > 	And report the result...
> 
> There are a couple more results to report.  After a successful (finally) 
> rebuild of the 2.4.19 mandrake kernel with separate pcmcia-cs-3.1.20 package, 
> I rebuilt hostap-2002-10-12 and wireless-tools-25-1mdk.  I removed the 
> installed iwconfig file and made sure it no longer existed.  I installed the 
> 25-1 version again and tried iwconfig.  I didn't get the complaint about not 
> supporting all features but I still only get a listing of essid, tx power, 
> encryption key on/off, and signal/noise numbers.  No freq, no channel.  
> Trying to set the channel still an error:
> 
> Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04):
> SET failed on device wlan0 ; invalid argument.  
> 
> The full output of iwconfig --version is:
> 
> iwconfig  Version 25
>    Compatible with Wireless Extension v15 or earlier, currently
>    compiled with Wireless Extension v13.
> 
> wlan0  Recommend Wireless Extension v13 or later, currently 
>    compiled with Wireless Extension v13.

	This is puzzling, I've never seen a case where some ioctl
works and some don't. I would expect that you can't set the channel in
managed mode, but it should report it.
	Can you report the full output of iwconfig ?
	I hope Jouni has some insight.

	Good luck...

	Jean