Only ad-hoc although in master mode?

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Tue Jun 22 23:10:19 EDT 2004


On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 12:45:20PM +0200, Patrick Koffler wrote:

> iwconfig shows two network interfaces: wifi0 and wlan0. If I change an
> option i.e. <iwconfig wlan0 mode master>, wifi0 is changed too - I think
> this is correct. But the problem is that if I start master mode the card is
> only seen as an ad-hoc device by other wlan devices. All the changes with
> iwconfig throw no errors and with Suse 8.1 all went fine.

Can you please send me te output of following commands run when the
driver is configured for master mode?

iwconfig wlan0
ifconfig wlan0
dmesg
hostap_diag -a wlan0

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