Project Evil APs

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <200405292237.33361.dfr at nlsystems.com>
            Doug Rabson <dfr at nlsystems.com> writes:
: Is 'mediaopt hostap' supposed to with the Project Evil ndis driver? I 
: just acquired a Linksys WMP54G card which appears to use the Broadcom 
: 43xx chipset. I was originally intending to build a home-made access 
: point out of the thing but I can't set the hostap mode.
: 
: Project Evil likes this thing just fine with the drivers that came in 
: the box and happily sends and receives packets in adhoc mode. When I 
: try something like 'ifconfig ndis0 mediaopt hostap' I just get a 
: 'Device not configured' error:
: 
: # ifconfig ndis0 mediaopt hostap
: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (mediaopt): Device not configured
: 
: Any ideas? Should I be doing something other than 'mediaopt hostap' to 
: make it an AP? I've attached my dmesg and driver inf files in case 
: anyone wants them. I'll send the driver sys file on request - I tried 
: attaching it and the mailing list server blackholed it.

I've found that I have to set the ssid and the meida type to get
mediaopt to work.

Warner