iwconfig eth2 Master (Error)

chrism · Guru Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 526

Hi,

I tried to set my eth2, which is a wireless Lan Adapter, to Master, so it acts as an acces Point. For some reason it won't work. Here's the error message:

Petyr · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject:

what kinda of wireless card is this?

Regards,
Petyr

chrism · Guru Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 526

It's an "orinoco silver" pcmcia card.
It works fine as "ad-hoc".

Chris

Petyr · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:18 pm Post subject:

hrm, you might want to check the page the drivers for that card come from (I use an intel ipw2200) and see if their drivers even support that mode. It may be that they just haven't implemented it yet, but I don't know.

hth,
Petyr Rahl

UberLord · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:37 pm Post subject:

You need the hostap-driver to work in Master mode with that card iirc

chrism · Guru Joined: 15 Jul 2004 Posts: 526

I emerged hostap-driver. Then I loaded all modules mentioned.

After that I tryed to set the mode to master. Got the same error, though.

Thanks,
Chris

UberLord · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 11:39 am Post subject:

Did you remove the orinoco kernel driver?