On 10/12/2011 06:24 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I looked a little further and saw that nl80211 does support changing interface type (mode). But this driver (rtl8192ce) only supports creating new interfaces, not changing their type. Should mac80211 drivers generally support changing interface type (change_interface operation)?
I don't think that implementation of the WEXT interface is necessary. As to using iw, the following sequence worked:
iw dev wlan14 interface add wlan15 type adhoc iw dev set rename5 type managed iw dev set rename5 type adhocWhy it was called "rename5" when I asked for "wlan15" is not understood, but the iw interface changes the mode for an existing interface when using rtl8192ce.
BTW, I added a new iface because I did not want to interrupt my internat connection. Larry