Hi,
I am having a HP EliteBook 6930p laptop with Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link
5300. Though the card supports master mode I am not able to set it to run in
master mode. Is there anyway I can enable this mode?
$ sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode master
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
$ sudo /usr/sbin/hostapd ~/hostapd.conf
Configuration file: /home/damu/hostapd.conf
Could not set interface wlan0 flags: Input/output error
nl80211 driver initialization failed.
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=4 eloop_data=0x9382a78 user_data=0x9382fe8
handler=0x807b9f0
ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=6 eloop_data=0x9384bb8 user_data=(nil)
handler=0x8085990
The description of the device from lshw and iw are given below.
lshw description:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 00:21:6a:6d:f6:c4
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn driverversion=2.6.38-2-686
firmware=8.83.5.1 build 33692 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE
802.11abgn
resources: irq:46 memory:d8600000-d8601fff
The supported modes from iw output:
Supported interface modes:
* IBSS
* managed
* AP
* AP/VLAN
* monitor
Thanks
Damu
