Re: [Madwifi-users] Duplicate ath devices?

[dan <dan...@gm...>]

Sebastian Weitzel wrote:
> Zitat von Robin Rainton <ro...@ra...>:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having problems with the Madwifi setup on my Linux box and have 
>> posted
>> numerous questions.
>>
>> Another thing came to light today that is weird. sysctl -a shows what 
>> appears to
>> be 2 ath devices. 'ath' and 'ath0':
> 
> 
> Its no duplicate device, but just a fake proc entry for global atheros 
> settings. This settings can be overriden in the device specific proc 
> entry. That means that the countrycode in 'ath0' overrides the global 
> countrycode in 'ath'.
> 
> 

While we're on the subject -

When might we expect some functionality to actually create aliased 
devices, i.e. ath0:0, ath0:1, etc etc, tha thave their own security 
settings, transfer rates, yada yada.

I read somewhere that we're not that far out, and that it is going to 
happen.  If anyone has any more information on that, I'd be interested 
in speaking with them.

As I've said, my goal is to try to create multiple indipendent access 
points, each capable of their own authentication and access control, 
treating each alias as a while new access point.

Thanks!
-dant