hostap vs acx100

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 06:18:31PM +0200, capacity77 at tin.it wrote:

> I'm having a problem installating hostap because I'm using a dlink card
> dwl-650+ and it works with the acx100 driver. the problem is that I have
> to load the acx100 manually while the hostap requires some settings in /ect/network/interfaces.
> but if I load those modules manually this file is skipped!

What exactly are you trying to do? D-Link DWL-650+ is not Prism2/2.5/3
-based and it does not work with Host AP driver.

> # ifup wlan0
> insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.25/net/p80211.o: No such file or directory
> insmod: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.25/net/p80211.o failed
> insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.25/pcmcia/p80211.o: No such file or directory
> insmod: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.25/pcmcia/p80211.o failed
> insmod: insmod p80211 failed
> Failed to load p80211.o.
> run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/linux-wlan-ng-pre-up exited with return
> code 1
> 
> I think there's a kind of conflict between the acx100 and the hostap driver.Does
> anybody know how can I separate this two modules or solve it somehow? 

That looks more like linux-wlan-ng that Host AP driver..

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