card not working any longer with hostap driver...MORE

Praedor Atrebates praedor at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 28 14:44:55 EST 2003


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On Friday 28 February 2003 02:25 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> I have Mandrake 9.0 installed on my laptop, kernels 2.4.19 and 2.4.21 (the
> 9.1 release candidate kernel), and neither works in combination with hostap
> cvs and my prism2-based Zoomair pcmcia card.
>
> Under Mandrake 8.3, kernel-2.4.18, I had it working.  No hardware has
> changed. Iwconfig doesn't work - trying to set anything on the card
> produces errors:
>
> # iwconfig wlan0 mode master
> Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
>   SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
[...]

I find that for the most part, though I get the above error messages when 
using iwconfig, the mode appears to change as desired...EXCEPT that I cannot 
get to monitor mode.  How are people getting into monitor mode with hostap?  

praedor
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