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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

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

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).

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...

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.

You don't need a branch, you need to compile the kernel...

I've installed kernel. But if I compile drvers in kernel than it panics. Works correctly only as a module.

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.

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.

Please compile rt2x00 with debug enabled.

Also you will need hostapd for master mode capabilities.

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!

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

Regards,
Romain

Hello Spy,
Do you mean that the new 2x00 driver doesn't support master mode ?

Master mode is enabled in rt2x00, you will need Johannes Berg's patches for mac80211 to add support for master mode to mac80211.