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Author:  dmohapatro [ Fri Aug 24, 2007 2:16 am ]
Post subject:  Support for Master mode in rt61 drivers

hi,

This is my first post .
Can somebody help me in setting up the rt61 driver to set my AWLC5025 MIMO XR™ 802.11g Wireless Cardbus Adapter to master mode.

can any body send me the procedure for setting up the driver to work in master(AP) mode for the rt61 driver

Author:  Spy84464 [ Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:13 am ]
Post subject:  Impossible

Hello,
This is impossible, the legacy rt61 driver doesn't support it. You have to use our new driver : rt2x00. Master mode is unsupported by vanilla kernels at the moment, so rt2x00 CVS is no use for you, you'll have to grab a whole new kernel from git, see the instructions here : http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rt2x00_GIT_instructions, rt2x00 comes with this kernel, keep in mind it is not considered stable yet.

Regards,
Romain

Author:  C00LM4N [ Mon Aug 27, 2007 10:51 pm ]
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I still don't understand what I need to do to be able to set master mode. Could you describe all install process at greater length?
Gentoo Linux, kernel 2.6.19, D-Link DWL-G510 (rt61/rt2561).

Author:  IvD [ Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:04 pm ]
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read the rt2x00 git instructions romain pointed out and download rt2x00.git
since you use Gentoo we can assume you know how to compile a kernel...

Author:  C00LM4N [ Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:16 pm ]
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I were following GIT instructions at http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Rt2x00_GIT_instructions but I don't understand what I have to do after creating my branch... really...
And I should use any branch name, at will? Don't know what it means.

Author:  IvD [ Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:01 pm ]
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You don't need a branch, you need to compile the kernel...

Author:  C00LM4N [ Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:58 pm ]
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I've installed kernel. But if I compile drvers in kernel than it panics. Works correctly only as a module.

Author:  m00dawg [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:08 am ]
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So I was able to get things working and the card appears to be working correctly:

filedawg bin # iwconfig
...
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"AirdawgExpress"
Mode:Master Frequency:2.427 GHz Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:6539-786C-6231-38
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
...

However, when I try to scan the networking using KisMAC or my iBook or try to join the network, it doesn't appear in the list. I have only gotten ad-hoc to sorta work.

I can't find any errors in 'dmesg' about this; is there anything I might be missing? I basically have the following in my /etc/conf.d/net (Gentoo):

essid_wlan0="test"
mode_wlan0="master"
channel_wlan0="4"
config_wlan0=( "192.168.3.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd 192.168.3.255" )

Any help would be appreciated! I am using the rt2x000 drivers with the RT61 chipset.

Author:  m00dawg [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 2:22 am ]
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I almost forgot! I am using the GIT kernel:

Linux filedawg.moocow.home 2.6.23-rc4-g1dff65b1 #1 Mon Sep 17 08:31:18 CDT 2007 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

And my previous snapshot mentioned a WEP key. I have tried it both ways and neither cause anything to come up using KisMAC or when trying to simply join the network regularly.

Author:  IvD [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:27 pm ]
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Please compile rt2x00 with debug enabled.

Also you will need hostapd for master mode capabilities.

Author:  WatsonJX [ Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:22 am ]
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Hi there,

I am very interested to run rt61pci in master mode. Could you point me to some instruction or document on setting it up?

Thanks a lot!

Author:  Spy84464 [ Sat Dec 22, 2007 11:52 am ]
Post subject:  Unsupported

Hello,
None of our driver support this mode, it has been disabled because it's currently broken.

Regards,
Romain

Author:  moratm [ Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:24 pm ]
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Hello Spy,
Do you mean that the new 2x00 driver doesn't support master mode ?

Author:  IvD [ Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:09 pm ]
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Master mode is enabled in rt2x00, you will need Johannes Berg's patches for mac80211 to add support for master mode to mac80211.

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