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Message-ID: <48DF601C.9060406@dnstelecom.co.za>
Date:	Sun, 28 Sep 2008 12:44:44 +0200
From:	Gregory Nietsky <gregory@...telecom.co.za>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
CC:	linville@...driver.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ath5k-devel@...ema.h4ckr.net
Subject: Re: [ath5k-devel] [PATCH 1/1] Ath5k: add AP mode

Gents it is great to see this happen one snippet more and you will be 
able to set the interface into AP mode from userspace hostapd and friends.


diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
index e09ed2c..69aad6e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
@@ -488,6 +488,7 @@ ath5k_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,

        hw->wiphy->interface_modes =
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_STATION) |
+               BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_AP) |
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_ADHOC) |
                BIT(NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT);


i have had it working and no complaints so far.

please note that as with mac80211_hwsim it is dependent on a patch

Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README

Please note that the current Linux kernel does not enable AP mode, so a
simple patch is needed to enable AP mode selection:
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/kernel/all/LATEST/006-allow-ap-vlan-modes.patch

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Subject: mac80211: allow AP and VLAN modes

This patch allows switching interfaces into AP/VLAN modes using
cfg80211 (nl80211). Don't allow doing it with wext because then
people will just attempt to do it manually (without hostapd) and
complain that it doesn't work.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
---
 net/mac80211/cfg.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- everything.orig/net/mac80211/cfg.c	2008-09-26 15:07:22.000000000 +0200
+++ everything/net/mac80211/cfg.c	2008-09-26 15:09:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ static bool nl80211_type_check(enum nl80
 #ifdef CONFIG_MAC80211_MESH
 	case NL80211_IFTYPE_MESH_POINT:
 #endif
+	case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP:
+	case NL80211_IFTYPE_AP_VLAN:
 	case NL80211_IFTYPE_WDS:
 		return true;
 	default:


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Regards Greg

Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Add support for AP mode. This involves:
> - enablement in ath5k_beacon_config -- initialize beacon timer
> - add AP to the supported modes in ath5k_add_interface
> - handle beacon change even for AP in ath5k_config_interface
> - remove useless test for IBSS in ath5k_beacon_update
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
> Cc: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@...il.com>
> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c |   42 +++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
> index e09ed2c..d5d8e2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c
>   

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